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...modernization in key countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, as unemployment remains stubbornly high and real wages fall. Warned Rubio: "It's a pocketbook issue, and the pocketbook is getting emptier by the day." With the spirit of deregulation on the wane, the region is vulnerable to a renewed outbreak of what Rubio called "the Latin American disease, the tendency of politicians and bureaucrats to micromanage everything...
...would never inherit the 2,500-acre family estate that went eventually to her only brother. But Pamela Digby was bored in the Dorset countryside. She craved more excitement and found it by marrying Randolph Churchill, whom she had met on a blind date just weeks after the 1939 outbreak of World War II. The only son of Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Randolph was a womanizer, and the marriage was tempestuous. When he left to battle Germans, Pamela began a series of love affairs. The most important was with Averell Harriman, the top U.S. envoy in Britain, from whom...
...violent outbreak of disorder which ensued in the Crown Heights neighborhood has been described as "race riots" (Boston Globe) and symptomatic of a "deep racial divide" (New York Times). These terms are inappropriate because the victims were victimized specifically because of their religion and not their race. It somehow eases the consciences and sensibilities of some if they can portray a problem as a racial, rather than an anti-Semitic, one. For some, persecution of the Jews has become a cliche from which they would rather shy away...
...however, may be premature. While public-health officials believe the risks are remote, concern is building in both Europe and the U.S. that the mad-cow problem may be larger than it seems. This week the science journal Nature published a paper on the possibility that last year's outbreak might be only the tip of an epidemiological iceberg, and that tens of thousands of Europeans are unknowingly infected and could die from the disease. Moreover, a number of researchers in the U.S. aren't convinced that some of the same conditions that led to the mad-cow breakout...
...Even some Kremlin sources who view Lebed's departure with satisfaction are worried about Chechnya. "I don't know if Kulikov has the brains to avoid a renewal of fighting in Chechnya," said the Kremlin adviser. "But the President has to put all his energies into avoiding a further outbreak of fighting." Still, on Saturday, Yeltsin replaced Lebed as chief negotiator in Chechnya with veteran politician Ivan Rybkin, who was also named the new national security adviser. Rybkin has never held a senior military post...