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...Administration is indifferent to it. As Chavez uses his multi-billion-dollar oil revenues to fund the kind of social projects that Venezuela's legions of impoverished never saw from his kleptocratic predecessors-and to subsidize cheaper oil for his cash-strapped Latin neighbors-more people are willing to defend him, as most Latin leaders did last spring when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice toured South America...
...British police say they are so efficient. But what kind of efficiency is this?" Amid claims from the family of a police cover-up - vigorously denied by Blair - Brazilian investigators prepared to fly to London for talks about the case with their British counterparts. Blair continues to defend the integrity of his force, and with the risk of more attacks still real, the British public want to believe...
...prosecutors had taken those allegations and released them to the public,? DeFede says. ?Art was devastated by this. Art was talking to me about the impact this was having on his adult son whose mother had just passed away, how the ministers in the black churches would not defend him if he was homosexual...
...While negotiations continued over the weekend, little headway appeared to be made on substantive issues. There was general agreement that the Korean peninsula should be "denuclearized," but no accord on what that meant. North Korea, which has stated it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself against a "hostile" U.S., is arguing that a deal must include removal of any U.S. nuclear threat in the region?a nonstarter with Washington. The North also wants to keep its nascent civilian nuclear program, but the U.S. fears that would mean Pyongyang could still sell the building blocks of nuclear weapons technology to terrorists...
...Environmental groups defend Kyoto and see nothing but backpedaling in the new arrangement?if not something worse, like a protection of coal industries in Australia, the U.S., China and India. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, says he sees a single advantage to the new approach: that the Bush Administration is finally acknowledging that global warming is real and that fossil fuels play a role. "But this dual pact approach is not helpful," he says. "The entire world community needs to come together on this issue. The pattern...