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...often centers on human rights. Meles, 52, is a former rebel leader who helped overthrow dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991 and whose Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front has held power since. While the European Union deemed the 2005 general election not credible, the African Union and the Carter Institute declared it free and fair. But when the opposition objected to Meles' victory with mass protests, Ethiopia's security forces cracked down, killing dozens of people and jailing thousands. This month, the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is probing allegations that the security forces are waging...
...hurt, Henry wants the substitute to be just or almost as good. It's been an unpopular policy at times, says Bunce, "but it gives me confidence." So do the players - including a peerless loose-forward trio of Jerry Collins, captain Richie McCaw and Rodney So'oialo, and Dan Carter, who exemplifies the difference between a great fly-half and a fly-half who's a great kicker, like England's Jonny Wilkinson. "We have guys," says Bunce, "who can break games open...
...their politically charged drama Rendition; and perpetual hottie Brad Pitt will light up the city when he appears in support of his western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Rock icons Lou Reed and Eddie Vedder will be there, as will former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the subject of Jonathan Demme's documentary Man from Plains...
...appalled that several presidents have found comfort in the shallow religiosity of Graham. I hope they associated with him only for political reasons and were too wise to take him seriously. The fact that Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman kept him at a distance increases my regard for them. Time observes that Graham "has shaped the contours of American public religion." If that is so, then I weep. M.D. Fisher, Cashmere, Queensland...
...presidential palace by trashing the ballot box - like, say, most Mexican Presidents of the 20th century - then the news this week would be genuinely alarming and the Bush Administration's attempts to pair Hugo with his buddy Fidel Castro might be more credible. But respected groups like the Carter Center in Atlanta have deemed his victories fair, the result of a remarkably incompetent Venezuelan opposition rather than rigged voting. And rather than ramrod the constitutional amendments by fiat, he'll put them to a national referendum. Just as there was a good chance that Chavez could have been ousted...