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Veteran P.R.I. officials concede that there is "a contradiction" between the rapid renovation of Mexico's economy and the slow pace of political change. Opposition politicians on both right and left go further, accusing the P.R.I. of outright electoral abuses. Various international human rights groups and local activists cite a growing number of incidents of police harassment and brutality. Intellectuals, especially those linked to popular opposition leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, who lost to Salinas in 1988, accuse the government of orchestrating a campaign to intimidate and silence political opponents. Says Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, a professor of political science at Mexico City...
...guarded Current Situation Room on the second floor of the Pentagon. Powell was waiting there for him. Amid the maze of projection screens, television monitors and colored telephones, they drafted the advice on military responses Cheney would offer Bush: the U.S. could -- and must -- defend Saudi Arabia with a rapid infusion of military might...
...conclusion of a report in Science magazine last week by demographer S. Jay Olshansky and gerontologist Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago and biostatistician Bruce Carnes of Argonne National Laboratory. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in basic science that would forestall the aging process, they say, the era of rapid increases in human longevity has come to an end -- at least in developed countries. Even if science could eliminate heart disease and cancer -- which account for nearly 50% of all deaths in the U.S. -- it is unlikely that the average life expectancy at birth would increase much beyond...
While somewhat offensive and unintelligible when taken out of context, these platitudes are woven into a highly idiosynchratic dialogue. Punctuated by puns and wordplay, it succeeds in pulling laffs as often as it fails. Bobby (Sean Williford) and Rob (Joel Rainey) conduct a whirlwind, rapid-fire dialogue that frequently disintegrates into slurs and incoherence, a problem that rests as much with the actors' nervous pitch as with the text itself...
Whatever budget agreement finally emerges from Congress and the White House, it can be counted on to continue the rapid growth in spending for Social Security and other programs for those 65 and older. Which means that it is almost certain to widen the gap between what the government spends on the elderly and what it spends on children...