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...former coup leader's decisive victory is a sign of widespread popular anger at corruption and poverty in the oil-rich state. "Although he plans a referendum on changing the constitution, his economic policy will have to be more moderate," says Hoag. "Today's reality no longer allows for leftist economics." Washington denied Chavez an entry visa a year ago, but has said it would work with him if elected. After all, Chavez is just a feeling...
...Democrat" centrists that Bill Clinton used both as a springboard to the nomination in 1992 and as an idea factory for such once un-Democratic proposals as reforming welfare and balancing the federal budget. Back then, the DLC was the home of malcontents frustrated by the party establishment's leftist orthodoxy -- and by its tendency to put forward sure-loser candidates like Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Now, thanks to Clinton's success as an Oval Office two-termer, DLC thinking has become the party's de facto theology, and its annual conference has developed into a station...
From her role in the end of the Cold War to her somewhat ruthless reform of the welfare state, Thatcher was a truly remarkable leader. That all of Harvard does not recognize this is indicative of the Leftist Lite mush which permeates our College. CABOT HENDERSON...
...smart enough to understand that a Senate and a House dominated by Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich will not embrace a throw-the-money-at-the-problem-leftist solution; the New Deal era is dead," he said...
...Chile almost half the citizenry still revere Pinochet as a strong leader who saved the nation from economic and political collapse after his bloody U.S.-backed 1973 coup, in which leftist President Salvador Allende was killed. Since becoming a Senator, he has tried to project a more benign, grandfatherly image. But in countries like the U.S., where Pinochet assassins executed one of his exiled opponents in 1976, he's unlikely to get much sympathy. "The international community is sending a very positive signal for democracy and human rights," says Palma. Retired Chilean army General Luis Cortes Villa, head...