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...lead a political shift in Latin America that is buzzing like a Che Guevara souvenir convention. With the Bush Administration tied up in the global war on terrorism, Chávez and his allies have mounted an assault on U.S.-backed free-market reforms that are allegedly widening the gap between the region's rich and poor. Since Chávez was elected in 1998 (and again in a special 2000 election), leftist leaders like him have taken power or are leading voter polls in eight countries, including the two largest, Brazil and Mexico. The most recent domino to fall was Bolivia...
That behavior, the theory holds, may be at least partially responsible for the persistent academic achievement gap between whites and certain minority students...
...spoke stressed the importance of greeting as many peoplestaff as well as internsas possible during the summer. Who knows, the staffers said, these contacts might be the key to a job in DC. Youll have a stack of business cards this high, one of them said, putting a considerable gap between her thumb and index finger...
Last week 13 liberal Senators and 37 Representatives issued a statement noting the sacrifices of the hunger strikers and pointing out the "paradoxical" gap "between the public will and public policy on the question of aid to the contras." If in the near future the secret war with Managua proves as costly to the Reagan Administration's credibility as it did last week, such gestures may create enough of a clamor to force even the President and his hard-line advisers on Central America to pay heed. --By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by John Borrell/Managua and David Halevy/Washington
...figure of Soviet veneration, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is ahead of Samantha Smith, but the gap may be narrowing. Since her death in a 1985 plane crash, the name of the Maine schoolgirl, who visited the Soviet Union in 1983 at the invitation of Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov, has been affixed to a Siberian diamond, a hybrid violet developed in Lithuania, a street in Yalta and a five-kopeck postage stamp. The homage reached new heights last week with the dedication of Mount Samantha Smith, a 13,000-ft. peak in the central Caucasus just north of the Turkish...