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...hopes were raised at the prospect that the network might continue the short but hallowed tradition begun by “Daria,” with “Undergrads” taking on, as its press release labels it, the “strange developmental purgatory that is the college freshman experience.” But alas; “Undergrads” comes closer to “Saved By the Bell: The College Years” than it does to “Daria” in finding humor in the maelstrom of social and academic changes...
Next door, 14-year-old Jaime Adriano is waiting, too. He was only two months old when his mother abandoned him, overwhelmed by the prospect of raising an Amerasian child on her own. Jaime lives with a foster family, sleeping in a coffin-sized bedroom where he keeps his hip-hop clothes and prized hair gel. Neighbors whisper that his foster father beats him, but there is nowhere for the 14-year-old boy to go. School is out for the former honor-roll student: his foster father recently lost his job and Jaime's $10 tuition was the first...
Perlstein is a talented political writer—one whose work has appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, Slate and The Village Voice, among others—and his seductively colorful writing style is in full form here. The book begins with tantalizing, epic promise. From the wreckage of Goldwater’s election disaster, Perlstein tells how 10 new conservative Republican governors were elected a mere two years later, eventually leading to Reagan’s 1980 triumph and Bill Clinton’s adoption of many of Reagan’s political positions in 1995?...
...said, citing such cases as Portugal, Ireland and Greece in Europe, "countries that have caught up very quickly to the income of that area." The economic success of Mexico in the wake of the NAFTA accord also proves the case. "There is a very tight link between the growth prospect for Latin America, the payoff associated with reform and FTAA success," Velasco said. "It is the big chance Latin America has for jumping on the fast-growth bandwagon...
...crowd of 2,000 anti-FTAA protesters had to be dispersed by tear gas outside the city's Sheraton Hotel on the first night of the ministerial get-together. If anyone is expected to invigorate the trade talks, it is George Bush, and his White House relishes the prospect of demonstrating hemispheric leadership. "Quebec City will put additional focus on the President's trade agenda," says Robert Zoellick, the top U.S. trade negotiator. "He's an honest-to-God free-trader." Bush has used the same phrase in meetings he has held in Washington with six of the hemisphere...