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...Chile has historically been a model of neo-liberal economic reforms, including deregulation, regional cooperation, and free markets—the antithesis of the Cuban model. There is something incongruent with the goals of Chile and its allies and that of Cuba and the “non-aligned movement?? in which it has come to be a leader. In order to maintain international support from its allies and main trading partners, Chile must only visit the Pearl of the Antilles if it is prepared to do so in support of the Cuban people and not the Cuban...
...environmentalists right now may be not insecticides or intransigent oil companies, but indifference. According to a recent Pew Center poll, 15 percent fewer voters deemed “protecting the environment” a top priority than in 2006. Such general apathy frustrates and puzzles adherents of the green movement??all indicators, after all, point to nothing less than impending doom. They thrust forth pamphlets full of statistics (bright red), CO2 graphs (alarmingly inclined), and before-and-after images of Arctic ice caps (now you see ’em, now you don?...
...talked about the connection to nature portrayed in writing. “Nature writing encompasses robust narrative and well-grounded observations from the science of the natural world,” Elder said. He said that 20th century nature writing—as well as the 19th-Century Transcendentalist movement??s emphasis on the connection between people and the environment—had greatly inspired him. “Most people are not interested in nature. We’re more interested in other people,” Peterson, the moderator, said. “The trick...
...truth: “the struggle for racial equality in the North continues.” The book moves from the early 20th century up to the 1980s, revealing many facets of this fight for equality that aren’t exactly well known, such as the Civil Rights movement??s early associations with Communist and Socialist political parties; its leaders’ personal relations with presidents (A. Phillip Randolph and Lyndon Johnson had their fair share of meetings); and how the fight for equality was undermined by a vicious cycle of unfair, false perceptions over which black...
...eight years now, he’s been writing speeches at the core of the modern conservative movement??first as a senior advisor to President Bush and most recently for Senator McCain. Two months ago, he made headlines as the author of Governor Palin’s well-received nomination speech at the Republican National Convention. In some sense, Scully was a natural choice to write the speech: A former literary editor at National Review, he has long been an eloquent advocate of pro-life, faith-based conservatism...