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...Morales once quipped that the coca leaf should be Bolivia's "new national flag." It almost looks as if he has fulfilled his prediction as he parties into the night wearing coca-leaf wreaths during the weeks leading up to his Jan. 22 inauguration as Bolivia's President. The leftist Morales, 46, won a stunning landslide in last month's election in no small part because he pledged to legalize far more cultivation of coca, which Aymara Indians like him have chewed for centuries for traditional medicinal purposes and which the U.S. has tried for decades to eradicate in Bolivia...
...Altough Morales, who leads voter polls with about 36%, has made bashing Washington a centerpiece of his campaign, he may not be able to keep his populist promises. The U.S. campaign to eliminate coca may be widely unpopular in Bolivia, where chewing the leaf is deeply entrenched in the culture, but by legalizing its cultivation Morales would risk losing the more than $200 million in essential aid Bolivia receives from Washington. Similarly, while it may be politically popular to call for nationalization of natural gas reserves, that would likely alienate the U.S. and other multinational firms that Bolivia needs...
Burt wrote that “if I had been arguing for FAIR, I would have taken a leaf from Justice [Antonin] Scalia’s book of statutory interpretation” and argue that the court should look to the clear meaning of the Solomon Amendment’s text—and not only to Congress members’ intents...
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...JDMC)Sunday, Dec. 4 Opportunes-Pitches Winter Concert 2005. The Harvard Opportunes and the Radcliffe Pitches perform their annual joint a capella concert. Sanders Theatre. 3 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $12 general admission, $7 students. (AMF)WBOS Holiday Show with Carbon Leaf, Duncan Sheik, Brandi Carlile. Indie rock band Carbon Leaf will perform from 3-4:30 p.m. and the repertoire will include the single “Life Less Ordinary.” An old favorite, Duncan Sheik—best known for the ’90?...