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Though the screening was a taped performance rather than the planned live simulcast from Norfolk, Va. (an event postponed by bad weather), energy levels in the audience were high. One audience member waved a bumper sticker that read, "Glenn Beck. American Hero." (See pictures from a day in the life of Glenn Beck...
...Agency for International Development-backed initiative promoting crops to replace coca. San Martin's top cacao producers hosted a tasting fair in Tarapoto, the department's largest city, in mid-January for a U.S. delegation including Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, who was in town for a day. Steinberg walked away with bags of rich, dark chocolate, telling growers that his two daughters loved chocolate...
...deputy; the government of Africa's most populous country adrift; a civil war likely to start again in the southern oil fields; hundreds killed in religious clashes in the north; and fresh national shame after a young Nigerian tried to blow up an airplane over Detroit on Christmas Day. (See pictures of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...takeover this week, saying he wished to "dismiss the unnecessary, unwarranted and inflammatory comments circulating which suggest a coup might be needed to pull the country out of a constitutional crisis in Yar'Adua's absence. A military coup would be akin to dragging us back to the dark days of our nation's history." He acknowledged, however, that "there is tension in the country, everybody knows that." Chief of Defense Staff, Air Marshal Paul Dike, seemed to suggest that tension involved the army itself when, the same day, he called on Nigeria's soldiers to "justify the trust...
...seems increasingly clear that someone must replace the President - and before the next elections in 2011. As Chidi Amuta, columnist for This Day newspaper, wrote this week: Yar'Adua's conduct "has fatally compromised his stature ... Contempt for the people may not appear in the constitution as an impeachable offense but ... even if he returns now hale and hearty, Yar'Adua is a marked...