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...instead of making things easier, the elections actually made them harder. After Bush replaced Rumsfeld with Robert Gates, a member of the Baker-Hamilton commission who had served the first President Bush as head of the CIA, the psychoanalysis rampant in the media about Daddy's team coming back to save the prodigal son steamed everyone at the White House, from the President on down, and led the Administration to dig in its heels. Says a Baker confidant: "Everything that happened on Election Day made for extra work." It wasn't long before senior Administration officials were whispering that...
...moment, the stigma and misunderstanding about the disease still runs rampant even in capital cities in Africa. That makes it a wrenching adjustment for these doctors, who come from the relatively open society of the U.S. to the more culturally restrained and hierarchical structure found in traditional African nations. When they landed in Africa this summer, the doctors came prepared for the tough questions about drug regimens, and they were primed to talk about the importance of adhering to the drug dosing schedules. But most couldn't begin to appreciate how the very fabric of the new societies in which...
...Dealing with the still rampant stigma over HIV remains a challenge as well. "The nurses scold me for 'talking too loud about HIV' while I'm [on rounds seeing patients]," Sarah Kim writes a month after arriving in Lesotho. "Sometimes I feel like saying, 'well the majority of this ward is positive so we have to talk about it!' But I realize that I shouldn...
...view, Pakistan is becoming more liberal, especially on college campuses. All my friends and family who live there paint a picture that is very different from the society I left barely six years ago. Music on campus is a huge part of the social scene in Karachi, dating is rampant, the arts and culture are vibrant, and Western influences and a free press are spreading. Most of the middle- and upper-class urban population, although they may not support U.S. policies (Who does?), are not fanatic in their beliefs and would never vote for conservatives. Omar Haq Piscataway, New Jersey...
...foes of Chavez is widening. Chavez, who famously called President Bush "the devil" at the United Nations, will face opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, who Chavez accuses of being backed by the "empire" - in other words, the United States. For his part, Rosales says he will tackle the country's rampant crime and corruption problems, end Chavez's abundant aid to other leftist countries like Cuba and stop basing the distribution of government funding at home on political loyalty...