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...more as political actors than objective observers. Still, other leading privately owned networks such as Venevision have allayed their criticism of the government. Local journalists say that a media law that increases penalties for slander has encouraged self-censorship. And even media owners soft on Chavez admit that the constant pro-government trailers and late-night slandering of the opposition on the main state-run channel, Venezolana de Television, is little more than propaganda. The international response hasn't been favorable either, as the European Union and the U.S. Senate have expressed concern...
...don’t get straight A’s.Think back to high school and the time you received your acceptance letter from Harvard. How sweet was that moment? You officially were going to college, an accomplishment that—according to your guidance counselor’s constant warnings to you and the rest of your class throughout the application process—only occurs to students who are way more intelligent, athletic, artistic, and cooler than you. I was particularly excited about getting into Harvard because, as everyone in the world quickly informed me, “getting...
What Price really tests is how to be a capitalist: how to survive in a consumer economy in which life is a constant struggle to defend the contents of your wallet. On Price, as in life, the vast groaning board of the consumer economy is laid out before you--buffet servers! Jet Skis! dinette sets!--and you must choose. What do you want? What do you need? And what is it worth...
...concern is that a faculty member’s financial ties will skew the results of research. “When money is in play, mischief is a constant companion,” Thrall says...
...there. A senior military official who lived at Abu Ghraib says soldiers were underequipped and undermanned. The reservists in particular had virtually no training for their prison-guard jobs. Discipline flagged. In November and December, around the time most of the abuse photos were taken, Abu Ghraib was under constant attack from nightly mortar raids. Basic sanitation for the troops consisted of overflowing portable toilets, and soldiers jerry-rigged showers from pumps they bought themselves. Six months after reopening as a prison, Abu Ghraib still had no single declared commander. All the while, detainees kept flooding in, at the rate...