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...first glance, Alvaro Uribe Velez and Francisco Santos Calderón hardly seem the perfect pair. While Uribe has been described as a stiff, conservative hard-liner, Santos, with his long hair and inviting smile, is a little more touchy-feely. However, as the May 26 first round of the Colombian presidential elections approaches, the duo sits atop opinion polls. Vice presidential candidate Santos balances presidential aspirant Uribe, a seasoned politician who has headlined his campaign with a stern promise to crack down on leftist guerrilla groups. The two hope to effect change with “a firm hand...
...Caracas is going to exacerbate the volatility in oil prices already set in motion by unrest in the Middle East. In the short term, it may even lead to a spike. Venezuela, the third largest exporter of oil to the U.S., emerged under Chavez as an oil hard-liner. The left-wing former paratrooper cozied up to radical petroleum producers like Iraq and Libya. He also criticized U.S. military action in Afghanistan and pushed for higher prices in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. To further that strategy, Chavez had cut back Venezuelan oil output, which then declined...
...your article "Tehran's Game," about what the Iranian government is up to these days [WORLD, Feb. 4]: People here in Iran do not necessarily fall into the two categories of hard-liner (conservative) and pro-Western (reformist). There are those who smell a rat in respect to both factions. The majority of Iranians are fed up with the demagogues and yearn for true democracy in our country. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Tehran...
...amiable. That distinguished him from Brixton's most notorious alumnus. Zacarias Moussaoui, a Frenchman who was detained in Minnesota last August and later charged with complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks, worshipped in Brixton while studying in London. Moussaoui is remembered in the mosque as a committed hard-liner...
...quote in tiny print on the liner notes for the Green Album seems to support this. Originally credited to Verdi, Cuomo told the BBC that the quote—“Torniamo all antico e sara un progresso”—loosely translates to “Let us return to old times and that will be progress.” For now, Cuomo wishes to return to old times—that is, until wannabe rockstardom comes calling again...