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That's made it easier for Chávez to use a heavier hand with the students - as have recent videos that appear to show some students allegedly transporting and preparing Molotov cocktails, in one instance igniting a small forest fire in a national park. (The students insist the fire was started by a police tear-gas canister, and that police had planted homemade bombs in one of their trucks.) "They want to provoke us onto the road of violence," Chávez told a crowd of supporters in western Venezuela this week, suggesting the students are "desperate" to have...
...larger Chávez failing - the seemingly intractable violent crime plaguing Venezuela today. It's a large reason, they argue, that presidential term limits should remain in place. (Under the present constitution, Chávez's second and final term ends in 2013.) Chávez and his backers insist that he's the only one who can ultimately tackle such crises given how ineffective the opposition is and may yet be for a while...
...exploration would inflict irreparable harm on the local environment. The BLM has yet to respond, but the Obama Administration has indicated in the past that it is opposed to the lease. DeChristopher's actions may or may not have been noticed by the White House, but greens insist they certainly didn't hurt. "Tim brought a different perspective and more attention to the sale," says Steve Bloch, SUWA's attorney on the case...
...Pierpaolo Petrucci, a St. Pius X priest from Rimini, told the Italian newswire Adnkronos that the Pope's gesture was unilateral. "The excommunication was lifted without any condition being imposed on us," he said. The traditionalist priest, however, then went on to insist the group was opposed to the Pope's dialogue with other religions, and said he was "scandalized" by Benedict's prayer at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Earlier in the week, a Lefebvrist priest in Treviso Floriano Abrahamowicz, reportedly rekindled the holocaust-denial controversy when he was quoted as saying, "I know gas chambers existed at least...
...lonely certainty, especially when reality and prosecutors' audiotapes insist on contradicting it. And puncturing it makes compelling, if excruciating, TV. Thus CNN's Larry King capped off his interview by showing Blago a reel of late-night comics making fun of his deeds and his hair. Blagojevich watched, a grin frozen on his face, as SNL's Amy Poehler taunted, "The first time I saw you, I thought you were walking away...