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Violence like this seems to accompany any public display in Chile. But it is a symptom, not a cause, of civil unease. It represents an inability to achieve a functional public dialogue about Chile’s recent past...
...blog called Modestly Yours. Grizzle recently wrote to criticize the Women’s Center for under-representing conservative literature in its library. According to Grizzle, the Center has made efforts to diversify its library since the article was published. In her time at Harvard, Grizzle has maintained a civil relationship with her ideological rivals. “I don’t think the manner in which I say things should offend people...I think it’s important to not be disrespectful or unintelligent,” says Grizzle. For the most part, she is treated civilly...
...refrain from helping India's nuclear program, on the grounds that this program might help Delhi enhance its weapons program. But this year, to the horror of anti-nuclear campaigners around the world, President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed that India should get access to U.S. civil nuclear technology and fuel, in return for opening its civilian nuclear facilities to inspection - India's nuclear weapons site would remain off-limits. In effect, the U.S. had accepted India's argument that its military and civilian nuclear programs should be treated separately. Last weekend's vote clears...
...Marxist-amuck by 1973. The economy was in state-run free fall and radical but influential leftist groups were calling for (if not already trying to carry out) an armed shift to Cuba-style communism. Pinochet always asserted that he was not part of a coup but a "civil war." In that sense, Pinochet maintained until his death that he had "saved" Chile...
...losing some $40 million each day the crisis continues, in lost business and from the costs of deploying the army and police round the clock in Beirut, according to government ministers. This is on top of the reconstruction costs from the war with Israel, and from the 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, which together have put the country about $40 billion in debt - $9 billion of which comes due next year. But with Syria reportedly resupplying Hizballah with arms, and Israel threatening to return in greater force this spring, international investors may soon decide that the country...