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...country toward a Cuba-style dictatorship - his reforms were narrowly beaten back by a 51% to 49% margin. The result, and Chavez's graceful acceptance of it, may well have set not only Venezuela, a key U.S. oil supplier, but all of Latin America on a far surer path to democracy in the 21st century. "This was a photo finish," Chavez told his stunned backers after his defeat was announced. "Don't feel sad, don't feel burdened...
...irresistible in uniform! Ditto boots, billowing shirts and moustaches! Hang marriage. Hang motherhood. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a train to catch.” An entire classic in only 42 words! But why stop there? One could follow in the path of Foxtrot’s Peter, who uses the “Cliff’s CliffsNotes” for Hamlet. They read simply: “Danish prince dies...
...Obama is not likely to take this path. He is a man bound by forces outside himself and by a practice that is central to the minority experience in America: masking. As the word itself makes clear, the mask is not an authentic representation of one's true self; rather it is a presentation of the self that angles for advantage. Today we blacks have two great masks that we wear for advantage in the American mainstream: bargaining and challenging...
...Harvard, they will learn all about my cripplingly low self esteem. But they will also learn how the Undergraduate Council changed the course of student history during my tenure. I believe, for all of our children’s sake, that the best way to continue on this path of change is to elect Frances I Martel ’09 and Leo P. Zimmermann...
...track and to get to bumping each other, there's a good chance that one or both of them are going to run or bump each other off the track or disable their vehicles. What you want to do is to make sure you're not in the path of the wreck when it happens because your chance to get around that wreck happens when you're just close enough to the draft but not close enough to get caught...