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...applied for this column to challenge what I though was the dominant leftist ideology that pervaded campus and hampered Harvard’s academic purpose. Naively, I hoped to set down a beacon of rationality as a guiding light in a dark forest of liberal orthodoxy. Unfortunately, I have discovered few liberal excesses to denounce. I am no beacon, and we are covered not in darkness, but in a thick gray haze of purposelessness...
...Likud loyalist, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has emerged as the top candidate to take on Sharon and leftist Labor Party leader Amir Peretz in next spring's election. Netanyahu, known as a hawk, told TIME he will campaign as a center-right candidate against the dovish Labor and Kadima, which an aide said Netanyahu plans to paint as "Labor in disguise." Under Sharon, "a de facto Palestinian state has been created in Gaza. Terrorist organizations became stronger," Netanyahu said, adding, "I believe there's a different road to peace...
...very retro. Unlike, say, the anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, the protests against the 34-nation Summit of the Americas taking place in this coastal city have a decidedly leftist feel from another era. That much was clear from the Che Guevara banners flying at the "counter summit" rally Friday. Folk singers crooned in Spanish, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave an hours-long speech of Castro-style invective against the United States and George W. Bush. Fidel Castro may not have been invited to the summit, but protestors carried his image on banners all over...
...days of military juntas seem gone forever and even though some of the nations here have a more leftist cast - like Argentina and Brazil, both of which are opposing the Bush plan for a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas - most, including Argentina and Brazil, have continued to make market reforms and create institutions that won the praise of the Bush White House. Friday, the president praised Argentine President Nestor Kirchner for his commitment to the rule of law and creating a climate favorable for investment. Bush planned to echo similar sentiments on his arrival in to Brazil later...
...reality for Washington is that the region's neo-leftist revival extends far beyond the bluster of Chavez: At least eight Latin American nations either have recently elected left-wing heads of state (including the region's largest economy, Brazil) or have leftists leading in the polls for upcoming presidential elections (including Mexico and Bolivia). Failure to engage the region's new politics will not only have economic consequences; it could also imperil other key U.S. goals in the hemisphere such as the war on drugs, immigration reform and the consolidation of democracy...