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Chavez backers point out that he hasn't thrown one opposition leader, journalist or striking oil engineer into jail during this crisis. While polls indicate that two-thirds of the nation is fed up with him, he retains the support of a sizable swath of the poor, who never had a voice in political or economic life until his election. He was ushered back into office last April precisely because, during the two days he was in military custody, Venezuelans grew nauseated watching TV images of cogollos romping in the palace, cocktails in hand, as if it were their private...
...masked man is a would-be suicide bomber, but the purpose of this surreptitious meeting is not to plan an attack on the Israeli forces patrolling the camp; he's there to tell the story of his life. On five consecutive nights last March, a German-born Palestinian journalist and documentary filmmaker named Raid Sabbah interviewed the masked man, a 29-year-old he calls Said. In his new book, Der Tod ist ein Geschenk (Death is a Gift, Droemer; 253 pages), Sabbah offers a rare glimpse inside the mind of a suicide bomber. "I wanted to describe the situation...
...well. Yet nobody is quite giving up on the world Case and Gerald Levin were betting on three years ago - whenever it may arrive. "Resignation May Help Ground a Visionary Medium," a New York Times story suggested; "Steve Case, Genius" was the title of an Op-Ed by journalist Nina Munk, who is writing abook on the travails of the combined company. "It took more than seven years before Wall Street acknowledged that the 1990 merger of Time and Warner was a success," she writes. "By that measure, it may be at least five more years before Steve Case...
...DIED. LORD JENKINS, 82, polymathic former President of the European Commission in Brussels and ex-Home Secretary in Britain who pushed reforms on divorce and homosexuality before helping to found the Social Democratic Party in 1981; in Oxfordshire, England. A distinguished journalist and acclaimed biographer, Roy Jenkins penned Gladstone (1995) and Churchill (2001). In 1987 Jenkins was made a life peer and elected Chancellor of Oxford University. He served as a mentor to Prime Minister Tony Blair, who described him last week as "one of the most remarkable people to ever grace British politics...
...DIED. YAYORI MATSUI, 68, Japanese journalist and women's rights activist who campaigned for Japan to admit its employment of "comfort women" before and during World War II; in Tokyo. Already suffering from cancer during a trip to visit feminists in Afghanistan last October, Matsui said: "I wanted to live at least 10 more years...