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...losing more than he thinks he's gaining. He's losing international recognition and he's losing the respect of his people.' MARCEL GRANIER, executive at RCTV, Venezuela's oldest private television station and a frequent critic of President Hugo Chávez, which went off the air on May 27 after Chávez refused to renew its license...
...Caracas Television until Sunday, would have jumped at the chance to show the events. But the reason the students had taken to the streets was precisely to protest the government's forcing RCTV off the airwaves, at midnight Sunday, by refusing to renew its broadcast license. The country's oldest channel had been replaced by state-run TVes, which showed cartoons and old movies during the protests. Critics of President Hugo Chavez warn that when the smoke clears, the television landscape will be largely bereft of independent voices willing to criticize the government...
...oldest in his squad, Starcevich looked after the younger soldiers and had his parents send supplies for his group. They needed metal dental picks to get the sand out of their weapons. (His mom and dad bought dozens on eBay.) And rosaries to pray on. (A church group in Tolono, Ill. hand-beaded 400 and shipped them to Baghdad...
Hosseini was born in 1965, the son of a prosperous career diplomat. In 1979 Hosseini's father was working at the Afghan embassy in Paris when the Soviets invaded. He moved his family-- Hosseini is the oldest of five children--to San Jose, Calif...
...FRANCE DUCKING ITS MILITARY RESPONSIBILITIES TO ITS OLDEST ALLY? France is not a pacifist country. We currently have more troops in the Balkans than the Americans. France is obviously not anti-American. It's a true friend of the United States and always has been. It is not France's role to support dictatorial regimes in Iraq or anywhere else. Nor do we have any differences over the goal of eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. For that matter, if Saddam Hussein would only vanish, it would without a doubt be the biggest favor he could...