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...There are no ranks in the N.P.A.," Victor tells me, "only responsibilities." But experience makes some comrades more equal than others. Platoon leader Jorex, 41, is a brooding giant with a bandolier of grenades strung across his chest. As a youth, he was recruited by a government militia to fight the N.P.A. but instead defected to the rebels...
...autocratic urges - and of the possibility that Chavez himself is Fidel Castro's real successor in Latin America. His nationalization scheme evokes the seizure of private businesses in Cuba after Castro's 1959 communist revolution: it ousts U.S.-based companies like Verizon, part-owner of the Venezuelan telecom giant CANTV, and the AES Corporation, which controls Venezuela's main power utility. Chavez asserted this week that while he'll compensate both U.S. firms, he won't pay them a market rate. And when the Bush Administration raised concerns about his burgeoning presidential powers, Chavez replied, in his usual charming fashion...
...That's the point that I really decided that musically as well as in my personality I wasn't ever going to dilute anything," he says. Eventually, he struck a deal with Casablanca, which - although backed by giant Universal - gave him complete control, even of the album artwork. "I was going in with sketches and cartoon characters and showing them to my record company and they were freaking out because I hadn't even chosen my producer," he says. Through his music and those accompanying drawings, Mika has created a 3-D cartoon world populated by surprising characters like Billy...
Today, the problem is not an overbearing, but a weakened and demoralized America, a giant whose physical power grievously exceeds its authority and legitimacy. Even the hyperpower's rivals must wish that the U.S. would return to the politics of responsibility that the Bush Administration has so willfully ignored. Yes, the world economy is doing very nicely. But there are too many exogenous factors out there that can turn into short fuses. The best hope is for a U.S. that will again temper raw strength with trustworthiness - and which remembers that it has always done best for itself when...
...opera to span the globe: real world music. The Met promised the largest production since its War and Peace, suggesting that Zhang would take the visual splendor of Hero and House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower and duplicate it, expand and perfect it, on the giant stage. Might we also have some swordplay and wire work...