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Bachelet has not hesitated to eat humble pie over Transantiago. She has apologized publicly and, at a recent breakfast with foreign correspondents, said the system's failures caused her "deep pain." The debacle is a particular embarrassment to Chile, which prides itself on being an oasis of order in an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mass Transit System from Hell | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Crying for the Past Yet much is riding on this election. Not only must it reintroduce a semblance of democracy after 15 months of flat-footed military rule, it must also restore the Thai people's faith in a political system that generated so much division and bitterness that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vote for Nostalgia | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

This past Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of good judicial sense. In two separate, simultaneously issued rulings, the court determined that federal judges ought to have the freedom to hand down just sentences, even if they contradict federal sentencing guidelines. One of the court’s...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Closing the Punishment Gap | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

Last week, I acted as moderator for this year’s official Undergraduate Council (UC) Presidential Debate.Debate? There was a debate? Glad you asked. There was, in fact, a debate. It took place Wednesday, Dec. 5, more than 48-hours after voting had started. I don’t...

Author: By Derek Flanzraich | Title: Why We Didn’t Care Any More | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

The current poll is, in many ways, a referendum on Modi and whether his modernization policies outweigh his reputation for ethnic demagoguery. Sonia Gandhi, leader of the ruling Indian National Congress party, has spent days campaigning around the state and has accused Modi and his party of playing on communal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Voters Torn Over Politician | 12/11/2007 | See Source »

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