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...Adam Nagourney, chief political correspondent for The New York Times, attributed the polarization to the increased availability of information, which forces politicians to get “louder and more coarse” to win attention. He also suggested that journalists’ “bias toward conflict,” rewards politicians who breed contention, rather than those who cooperate. Joshua C. Sharp ’08, who attended the panel, said he was struck by the agreement among the panelists, despite their diverse backgrounds. He said this indicated the value of the IOP as a place where...
...cooperatives, which would be given legal access to any gold-mine reserves the government might take away from idle concessionaires, foreign or Venezuelan. But many miners remain skeptical, especially since the cooperative funds are moving as slowly through Caracas as Crystallex's environmental permits. "We're always living with conflict and manipulation," says Humberto Jos Alonso, 37, an illegal miner for 18 years. "We hear promises from everyone, but we don't see results...
...brought in. "If it weren't for [Hecla], we'd still be out there with our picks and shovels getting nowhere," says Mireya Cobarrubia, 42, a mining veteran. Says local Hecla manager Jos Pino: "It isn't a problem as long as things are organized correctly." But as the conflict over Las Cristinas shows, organization in Venezuela's mining industry can be as rare as gold...
King claims the conflict grew out of deception. He says he discovered that the Meehan-Hoos had substantial savings, for example. "Their story kept changing," he says. "I wanted to help people who were, let's say, needy." Yolanda denies misleading anyone. "I told him, 'I am an open book.'" She says that while staying at King's house, she got a letter from her lawyer telling her she may be getting a $13,000 settlement for a lawsuit involving her mother, who had been injured on a bus years earlier. She says King learned that by opening her mail...
Mahinda Rajapakse's win, with 50.3% of the vote, in Sri Lanka's presidential election last Friday could determine whether the strife-ridden country sinks deeper into conflict. The signs are not good: a four-year cease-fire with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is under severe strain, with internal conflict in the rebel-controlled east and political killings blamed on the Tigers in the Sinhalese south. Rajapakse, 60, who says the peace process has been too soft on the Tigers, proposes ripping up the agreement and starting talks from scratch. Sri Lanka's stock market plunged...