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Even so, says Shifter, Brazil and the U.S. are likely to demarcate their hemispheric efforts when the Honduran crisis is over: Brazil focused on South America, where Washington's performance seems increasingly ham-handed, and the U.S. on Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, where Brazil has scant interests. For the moment, however, both powers are mired in the streets of Tegucigalpa...
...fled to the U.S. from countries where intelligence agencies, or mukhabarat in Arabic, are instruments of repression, used by unpopular regimes to brutally suppress dissent. And the CIA's reputation is doubly dubious: it is tainted by association with many Arab mukhabarat, and has a history of interfering (often ham-fistedly) in Middle Eastern politics...
...they thought about the criminal lack of hot breakfast during the week this year. Andrew M. Goldberg ’10, Lowell RR: How do you feel about the cuts of hot breakfast this year? AMG: Annoying. Kinda rude. RR: You don’t think cottage cheese and ham are breakfast foods? AMG: Those aren’t food at all. RR: Well do you have a favorite knockoff cereal here? AMG: I don’t eat those, but I do like the hemp and granola. Especially the hemp. It’s kinda like getting high...
...Burning Plain” flings its characters, none ever lands beyond redemption. Scars appear frequently in the film as indelible reminders of both trauma and happiness; either way, the past is always present. A full list of the many symbols Arriaga employs would indicate the work of a ham-handed artiste and a precocious directorial newcomer. But his recurring images are more reminders for the attentive viewer than the tools of the director’s agenda. Admittedly, the direction is not perfect. The story only begins to cohere around the 40-minute mark, helped along by the introduction...
Owing in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls. On the surface, Obama's intentions for Tuesday seem nothing more threatening than a presidential pep talk about taking education seriously. But some ill-advised prep material from the Education Department - like suggestions that teachers have students write letters on "how to help the President" and recommendations that those pupils read his books - has left the door ajar (and that's all it seems to take these days...