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Rice's rhetoric has now changed. On previous trips to Egypt, she was firm in preaching the need for faster democratic reform. But that sermon was missing during her latest trip, when she instead spoke of America's "important strategic relationship" with Egypt in what she has called a struggle "between extremism on the one hand and mainstream states on the other...
...season's record 59 million lift-ticket buyers were women--up 5% from the 2004-05 season, according to the National Ski Areas Association. And the total dollar sales of female-related ski goods has grown 64% since the 2001-02 season, says the Leisure Trends Group, a research firm based in Boulder, Colo., that tracks outdoor sports...
...year--a 10% increase--while overall women's ski-related sales jumped an impressive 18%, from $513.3 million to $605.2 million in the same period, according to the Leisure Trends Group. "We see all this happening because of women's spending power," says Julia Day, an analyst with the firm. "It's not some blip on the retail radar screen. It's a complete mind shift...
...have until now been a firm supporter of President Reagan's antiterrorist policy. However, he has done the U.S. and himself a great disservice in condoning arms shipments to Iran. Internationally, he has lost all credibility. Donald Dowey Hilden, West Germany...
...widest gap between rich and poor, Chavez's gospel of Latin American self-determination has spawned a resurgent left and unusually coordinated anti-Yanqui sentiment, evidenced by the region's rejection of President Bush's hemispheric free-trade proposal. Warns Luis Vicente Leon, head of the independent Caracas polling firm Datanalisis, "Every time the U.S. tries to demonize Chavez, it makes him larger than he really...