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...Zafran: Typical Harvard students support a lot of what the activist students on campus are pushing for, but yet always wonder if it’s worth it to invest their time. A lot of Harvard students say, “Yeah, I’m opposed to the war but does the fact that I’m coming out on a rainy Wednesday to support a peace walk matter at all?” In some ways, Harvard students are too mature for their own good. Perhaps students have lost a bit of the idealism that has characterized...
...It’s not enough to remove the terrorists—you need to get people to understand, [to invest] themselves in the government,” Linhart said. “You’re trying to get them to understand the mechanisms of government...to create a lasting, long-term effect...
...these IDPs? They are families who have been driven out by militias in the middle of the night - and Iraqi families invest all their assets in their houses. They leave their houses without taking anything, and if they were very lucky, none of them will get killed or brutally murdered. They go nowhere. Then they will have no food-ration card, they won't have IDs, their children will not be able to attend school. If they are lucky, they will find neighbors or relatives. They lack all kinds of public health services. Many of them...
Seemingly undeterred, Bolivia said this month it was also set to invest another $300,000 for developing new, legal coca markets. Not surprisingly, the Bolivian delegation was the first to issue what it called an "energetic protest" against the INCB's recommendations during the agency's annual meeting this week in Vienna. It also put forward a proposal to remove coca from the U.N.'s narcotics list. That's not likely to happen. The big question is whether the U.N. will adopt the INCB proposal - which would essentially leave Bolivia and Peru in breach of international law if they continue...
...with the Oscar-nominated, Colombian-U.S. production, Maria Full of Grace, and looks set to join Mexico, Brazil and Argentina as Latin American countries with bona fide industries. All have been aided in recent years by new government financing and generous tax breaks for businesses that invest in film - sources that made up almost a quarter of Paraiso Travel's $4.7 million cost. The movie takes the Colombian boom up a notch, into the realm of films like City of God that Latin American critics are calling la buena onda - a more consistent "groove" of first-rate moviemaking that...