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...government had produced in the 1990s to attract American tourists. The clips used slogans such as “Puerto Rico USA” and “Explore Beyond the Shore.” Another featured pop artist Ricky Martin, encouraging tourists to visit his native land. After showing the clips, Espada argued that in the face of greater competition, the island needed a distinctive brand to attract American tourists. “In order to brand we have to put our hearts in order,” stressed another panelist, Estela Ortiz-Aguilu, the director of the Ballet...
Wednesday’s ill-considered decision will have the worst possible repercussions for American women. It will propel the anti-abortion movement forward until the nation finds itself a repressive land of back-alley abortions. The Supreme Court has no more notion of what goes on in an operating room than it does in a woman’s mind—and it should not presume to legislate on either...
...plain-spoken octogenarian, who managed a motel until her late '70s, is relieved that rumors of suicide by Seung-Hui's parents proved false. All the same, she doesn't think it would be advisable for the family, who have maintained their Korean citizenship, to return to their native land in the wake of this horrible tragedy. "It would it would be too difficult for them if they returned here as this is a small country and Koreans are very gossipy," she says matter-of-factly. "We wouldn't let them return and would even try and block them...
...that I was trying to encourage the Woodward and Bernstein model of muckraking in a land with no First Amendment and no Bill of Rights. Last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists rated Syria ninth on its list of the ten most censored countries. And many in Lebanon blame Syria for the assassination of Lebanese journalists. Nevertheless, there is a fledgling private press in Syria, and although local reporters learn to steer clear of sensitive subjects, there is still room for a limited form of real journalism. Syria Today, the independent English-language magazine where I teach, has published articles...
...hypothetical concerns for a Syrian. The country was paralyzed by years of coups and plots until the Assad regime came to power in 1970; the Muslim Brotherhood launched a terror war against the regime in the 1980s; and Syria is still formally at war with Israel, which occupies Syrian land and almost certainly has spies operating here. As the saying goes, sometimes even the paranoid have enemies...