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...visit was just one stop on the group's $1,300 two-week "reality tour" of Chavez's Venezuela, organized by the San Francisco-based NGO Global Exchange. It was a clear sign that Venezuela, much like Cuba in the 1960s or Nicaragua in the 1980s, is fast becoming a destination for foreign leftists. As a diplomatic battle between Venezuela and the U.S. intensifies - with Washington banning any arms sales to Chavez and his government in turn threatening to sell fighter jets to Iran - Americans unhappy with the Bush Administration are eager to witness with their own eyes Chavez...
Although public disaffection with Blair has festered for years, the speed and scale of his decline have stunned even longtime detractors. Why have things soured so fast? One reason is the revival of the opposition Tories under their dynamic young leader, David Cameron. Another is a spate of recent government scandals, from undignified sexual shenanigans to more serious issues of misjudgment, recalling the venality and incompetence that dogged the dying days of the ancien Tory régime in the mid-1990s. But, like his comrade George W. Bush, Blair faces his biggest problem because of Iraq. Voters think he stretched...
...STARVE If their government nixes a ban, a group of Catholics in India may fast--"unto death," said one of its leaders...
...more. Recent media reports have illuminated a darker side of this art movement, documenting cases of well-known artists being lured away from desert communities by unscrupulous dealers, to be plied with fast money, drugs and alcohol in exchange for hastily completed canvases, often of poor quality. The message is worrying buyers as far afield as France. "'dreamtime artist hit by nightmare of sex and fraud'-did you see that in the paper?" asks Arts d'Australie gallery dealer St?phane Jacob over the phone from Paris. "It's really something that is affecting the credibility of Aboriginal art overseas...
...wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare?macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts?served with a mission statement that boasts of the kitchen's organic and local sourcing. There is a Fast Service menu for those who can only flee their desk for an hour, but we chose comfort food: a skillet of creamy baked eggs with undyed smoked haddock and spring onion, and a chicken-and-tarragon pie with mashed potatoes, greens and gravy. For dessert, we shared the strangely satisfying...