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...courteous in a professorial way; Fortinberry, a therapist, exudes warmth but also a fragility that betrays her long struggle with depression, won but not forgotten. Though they're blunt about the consequences of poor parenting, they don't criticize parents. "We live in a society in which damage is rampant," says Fortinberry, "in which it's impossible to bring up kids the way we're meant to bring up kids...
...defender of cocaleros (coca growers) and an avid street protester, Morales finally achieved a popular majority leading MAS (Movement to Socialism), an acronym that also means “more” in Spanish. More is precisely what Bolivia needs, following dubious privatization contracts by previous neo-liberal administrations, rampant poverty, and the perennial White House-baked recipe of the “war on drugs.” Yet, a simple fact about Morales seems to be a flawless symbol of the ironic and illusory realities of this continent: he is the first Inca descendant to lead the republic...
With Macy's turning a more careful eye to fashion, fear is running rampant among suppliers. Those who filled the racks at the more down-market May department stores are in real danger of getting squeezed out of Federated's pool of thousands of suppliers altogether. Marshal Cohen of NPD Group, a marketing-research firm, anticipates that a vendor that sold only to May stores has a "1 in 100 chance" of being selected by Federated. Of course, the change will benefit the companies that fit into Federated's strategy. Barry Miller, president of sales for $50 million high...
...that won a landslide victory in Wednesday's Palestinian Legislative Council election, taking 76 seats to the 43 of the ruling Fatah party in the 132-seat parliament, will focus on its stated priority of "cleaning the Palestinian house." What this means, concretely, is ridding the Palestinian Authority of rampant corruption, and establishing law and order on the chaotic streets of the West Bank and Gaza. Ironically, that means that a Hamas government, despite its opposition to previous peace efforts by the U.S. and Israel, may nonetheless end up carrying out precisely the reforms in the PA long demanded...
...eras of similar, implicit hopelessness—and wonder what our world would look like today if they had given in to those who argued that their fights for freedom were futile. Against such fatalism it is our responsibility to dream and articulate alternatives. I apologize for the perhaps rampant idealism manifest in these words, but here at Harvard there is no excuse for its opposite. We, who are given more opportunities in four years than many will receive in a lifetime, should be the most hopeful; we have no right to take cowardly comfort in the fiction...