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Robinson A. Ramirez ’02, a history concentrator in Quincy House, is associate design chair of The Crimson. He is living in Colombia and Panama this summer, musing about sports and society while conducting thesis research thanks to grants from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs...
Still, Hughes is taking the challenge seriously. It's in her nature. An Army brat whose father was the last U.S. commander of the Panama Canal Zone, Hughes, 45, is the most powerful woman ever to hold a White House job. A former local TV reporter, she has a keen sense for the American vernacular, and she channels it directly into Bush's mouth. In February, when speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote an elegant, ornate script for the President's first address to Congress, Hughes marveled at its beauty--and then rewrote most of it in the plain language the President...
...Still, Hughes is taking the challenge seriously. It's in her nature. An Army brat whose father was the last U.S. commander of the Panama Canal Zone, Hughes, 45, is the most powerful woman ever to hold a White House job. A former local TV reporter, she has a keen sense for the American vernacular, and she channels it directly into Bush's mouth. In February, when speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote an elegant, ornate script for the President's first address to Congress, Hughes marveled at its beauty--and then rewrote most of it in the plain language the President...
Where to go? What retirees tend to want most is--no surprise--a pleasant climate. Fortunately, they can find sunny skies in countries where the cost of living is low, such as Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Some retirees feel comfortable with a large expatriate community, which they can find in nearby Mexico. Many are lured back to places they have worked or visited--or to the land of their ancestors, say, France, Italy or Greece. Some Americans are braving the Irish weather or escaping to the wide-open spaces of countries like Canada or New Zealand. John...
...Castano near the Panama border? Because, he explained, his men had been tracking FARC guerrillas moving out of secret bases deep inside the Panamanian jungle. Last Saturday night a contingent of 300 FARC rebels attacked a Colombian army outpost in the Darien rain forest. Mortars screeched through the mist, and the dark jungle engulfing the army camp was suddenly lit by hundreds of blazing rebel guns. The Colombian army sergeant in charge and his 60 men faced annihilation. In the confusion and crashing grenade explosions, it took the FARC attackers a while to realize that they were suddenly being shot...