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Presidential electionsin Mexico used to be as sleepy as they were preordained, the product of 71 years of one-party rule that ended in 2000. But when Mexicans go to the polls on July 2, few will gripe that this campaign has been too quiet. The front runner, former Mexico City Mayor Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, has turned his rallies into carnival-style events, with supporters tossing marigold garlands around his neck and hoisting cages with squawking chachalaca birds that wear his opponents' names. To a raucous throng last week...
...that if the international boycott on funds and aid continues, the Hamas government will fall within three months. And the president's men, so the plot goes, will again grab power. One chain-smoking Hamas commander, hiding in a safehouse from Israeli hunters, says that his outfit had no gripe against Abbas, only against those "corrupted leaders of Fatah who have turned into agents of American, Israeli, Egyptian, and Jordanian intelligence services...
...initiatives continuing, even if he himself relinquished the helm. That seems like a fair plan, save for one question: Can anyone besides Larry Summers get it done?My guess is yes. A good portion of the Faculty’s grievances are purely personal, not intellectual. Humanities professors may gripe about Harvard’s investment in science, but they gripe more about the power, independence, and above all, stature, they seemed to have lost in the past five years. A new president who honors Homer, Herodotus, and Hippocrates equally should be able to expand on Summers’ vision...
...Summers’ mind,” said the individual who has spoken to members of the Corporation about the relationship between the dean and the president. Others close to Summers have echoed that assessment.THE BLAME GAMEThe Faculty’s looming budget deficit has also led Summers to gripe about Kirby’s leadership, according to several people close to the central administration.In an interview last week, Summers said the Faculty “is in a sound financial condition.” He voiced confidence in the Faculty’s ability to pay for a number...
...World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, they do so at a time when the mistrust of authority?and an increasingly vocal disrespect for it?has gone global. Deference is dead, replaced by sniping, cynicism and an outpouring of open protest. Thanks to the Internet, every individual's gripe can now be amplified and diffused to a mass audience, whether the gripers are retired Americans whose pension benefits have been slashed or Chinese peasants who have lost their farmland to the nation's torrid industrialization. A recent WEF poll of more than 20,000 people in 20 countries revealed that...