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...Peru provided the region's most stunning reaction to the Evo Morales victory in Bolivia: The candidate whose politics most resembles that of Morales (and Chavez) is Ollanta Humala, a retired lieutenant colonel and an admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle. Before the Bolivian elections, Humala had been polling about 12%; immediately after, he was at 22%, a statistical tie with the candidate of the center-right ruling party, Lourdes Flores Nano. While denying ties to Chavez for most of the race, Humala did an about-face on Jan. 3, traveling to Caracas and taking a front...
...area's unusual institutions: the 68-year-old National Firearms Museum, tel: (1-703) 267 1600; www.nra.nationalfirearms.museum. Run by the National Rifle Association, it has one of the country's largest collections of rare and historical guns. More than 2,000 are on display, including those that belonged to Napoleon (an 1800 double flintlock fowler shotgun), cowgirl Annie Oakley and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, says senior curator Doug Wicklund. On view through the end of 2006 is a special exhibit called the "Arsenal of Democracy," which honors World War II veterans with a display of firearms used...
...said. “The role of the military should be to do what it does well.” Fick, who served as a marine before starting at the KSG in 2003, said soft power is important when dealing with counterterrorism. “To paraphrase Napoleon, ‘moral is to physical as three is to one,’” Fick said. “In counterinsurgency, soft power is to hard power and 10 is to one.” Fick discussed the pros and cons of soft power in the Iraq...
...since they named a pastry after Napoleon has anything so delicious seemed so dictatorial. Mouth-watering aromas mix with despotism at La Crêperie on Mass Ave., where customers who do not follow rigid guidelines face an unwelcome (and hungry) fate. Is this Harvard’s very own Crêpe Nazi...
...support people who want to express their creativity and individuality,” Christopher said. “It makes it a lot more fun if people can pick and choose what they want.” Christopher said that this year’s most popular items include Napoleon Dynamite costumes, “anything pirate-related,” sexy nurse costumes, school-girl outfits, police accessories, and wings. One rule applies to almost every Halloween season, Christopher said: “People want to be either sexy or scary.”At Mass...