Word: concessioners
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Leakey promises to improve services, tackle corruption and balance the country's books in the process. "There is cynicism that the bad guys are still in power, but they're not in power," he says. "Delivery of service is now in the hands of the professionals." To help Leakey with...
President-elect Moscoso takes office with enough troubles already. She lacks a legislative majority, and any concession allowing the U.S. military back into Panama would be unpopular. Moscoso picked up her political acumen from her late husband, though a 46-year age gap separated her from the former President, Arnulfo...
The audience (not just the disorderly ones) seems to have judged that the organizers violated an unwritten social contract. Things came to a head on the final night; the crowds made bonfires of accumulated trash heaps and danced around the flames--a Dionysian image for the cameras. Rioters, admittedly a...
NO Syrian talks may stumble over the security arrangements Israel demands, notably limited-troop zones around the Golan and access to intelligence from a monitoring station there. At the same time, Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are famously immune to deadlines. The lives of the two peoples have overlapped too long to...
As the Red Hot Chili Peppers closed the concert with a cover version of Jimi Hendrix?s "Fire," hundreds of concertgoers used candles distributed by an anti-gun-violence group to torch a number of vendors? trucks and set fires on and around the stage. Soon the hooligans in the...