Word: lite
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...Center for European Reform in London. "It's much better to simply talk through the problem. The government has a lot to learn." According to critics, the suit shows how out of step the government has become with the rest of Europe and its own pro-Western urban élite. But it appears to revel in contrariness. "It's incredible how many conflicts they have produced in such a short time," said Jan Rokita, leader of the opposition Civic Platform party. The government has courted further controversy by setting up an "anticorruption" police force, controlled by the ruling party, with...
...barometer of where the D.R. is headed: the upcoming trial of the six alleged masterminds of the so-called BANINTER (Banco Intercontinental) scandal, in which $2.5 billion was looted. For the first time, scions of some of the most élite families will be in the dock. It's a case expected to go to the D.R. Supreme Court, which has been the focus of recent U.S. efforts at judicial reform. The trial may be just as symbolic of the Dominican Republic's future as the new subway is. If the court's justice isn't perceived as fair...
...about its popularity with John Paul were that it funded the Solidarity trade union and helped bail out the Vatican bank after its 1982 scandal. Poverty is demonstrably not one of Opus' vows. It has a reputation for cultivating the rich or those soon to be, at both élite colleges and its own institutions. (In Latin America many in the church feel that Opus priests served once ascendant oligarchs over the masses.) Even in the inner city, Opus is unabashedly less interested in identifying with the poor than turning them into the middle class. Bohlin jokingly distinguishes his members...
...lacks the characteristics of human interaction: the physical, mental and emotional sharing of thoughts. Tracey Gilpin Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S. Harvard in a New Light As a medical student very much intent on going to Harvard Medical School, I read with interest Nicholas Lemann's Essay on how élite American universities serve faculty better than students [March 6]. In Nigeria, where I study, there is a great dichotomy between students and lecturers that is aggravated when the latter are given preferential treatment, no matter what their flaws. Even though Harvard's lecturers might be highly qualified scholars...
...work inside a nuclear power plant. After we've reasserted control over the illegal population through enforcement, then we can have a debate about whether we legalize some of the people here or not. The public is already in favor of immigration enforcement. It's an élite commitment that's lacking. It's the business élite, Big Labor, Big Religion, Big Media, Big Academia, who are hostile to the very concept of immigration enforcement...