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...with a single e-mail. But Harvard students are in no rush to do so. Facebook announced on Tuesday that users can e-mail the company to request removal of their account, though there is still no simple way for members to delete their profiles on their own. Carlos Ch?? Salazar ’09 said that although he does not plan on using Facebook later in life, he would not permanently delete his profile. “It might be something like a yearbook I’d want to take out,” he said...
OLIVER STONE, Hollywood director, who has joined a mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Ch??vez to retrieve three hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, the nation's largest guerrilla army...
...panic set in on Sundayevening when news started to trickle out of Venezuela's National Election Commission, which is dominated by allies of President Hugo Ch??vez. Referendum returns indicated that Ch??vez's package of constitutional changes, including the elimination of presidential-term limits, would narrowly lose. Inside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Ch??vez--who had yet to lose an election since winning the presidency in 1998--was initially furious. But soon enough, he accepted the loss. And his calm concession did Venezuela--in fact, a whole continent whose leaders have had a habit of defying...
What will Ch??vez do now? The loss should prod him to focus on the problems of his nation that need fixing before he leaves office in 2013 instead of on his incessant, globetrotting socialist and anti-U.S. crusades. That way, Ch??vez stands a chance of leaving a record as the man who finally set Venezuela and Latin America on a real course toward solving terrible inequality and not as just another overweening Latin leftist who stayed too long. Ch??vez insisted to TIME last year that "capitalism is the way of the devil." But while Ch?...
Some adversaries had good words for Ch??vez. "There's no doubt he brought necessary changes to a very corrupt Venezuela," says Juan Meja, a head of the student movement that led the opposition to Ch??vez at the referendum. Indeed, it was Ch??vez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Nstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Ch??vez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results...