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...Venezuela initiated the Citgo program last November. While the heating oil gesture has certainly allowed Chavez to tweak Bush?s nose, it is also being recognized inside and outside of Washington as a public relations coup for Chavez?s Bolivarian Revolution (named for South America?s 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar...
...Territorial integrity and the safety of the people are always a prime concern for the leader of any country. Sharon became symbolic of the true soldier, a warrior and an aspirant for peace. He remains an undaunted hero, but no individual is indispensable. Israel has no dearth of successors to Sharon. K.C. Subhash Chandra Bangalore, India...
...Peoria, Illinois, Friedan-whose mother quit her newspaper job to be a housewife-was once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made her a hero to a generation of educated, middle-class women and helped launch the modern feminist movement in the '60s. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women and the group later known as the National Abortion Rights Action League, Friedan eventually switched her attention to the plight of older people...
...which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle, delirious with fever, threatening suicide, the indomitable ex-President transforms into an existential hero straight out of Joseph Conrad...
...Peoria, Ill., Friedan--whose mother quit her newspaper job to be a housewife-- was once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made her a hero to a generation of educated, middle-class women and helped launch the modern feminist movement in the '60s. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women and the group later known as the National Abortion Rights Action League, Friedan eventually switched her attention to the plight of older people...