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Institutions like the IMF and the World Bank, as well as generous countries of goodwill, should think twice before throwing good taxpayers' money after bad in aid of Argentina [LETTERS, Feb. 4]. Argentina needs to reinvent itself. Its recurrent crises are neither economic nor political. They are moral and rooted in Argentine society. The people spend most of their energy on cheating the system. JORGE GONZALEZ Cascais, Portugal...
...policy being slammed out of reverse and into first gear. Having spent most of the past three months with its arms folded, blaming Israeli-Palestinian violence almost entirely on Yasser Arafat and sparing Ariel Sharon even pro-forma calls for restraint, the Bush administration has lately been scrambling to reinvent itself as an even-handed activist mediator. The President on Wednesday castigated Sharon's tactics, sponsored a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a Palestinian state and sent Marine General Anthony Zinni back to Israel to pummel the two sides into a cease-fire...
...even this god of war had to adapt to the 1990s and its politically correct paradigm. Changing times required a change of pace, and Arnold gamely struggled to reinvent his image with films like Last Action Hero. This 1993 effort (read: it’s an effort to watch) was intended as a sort of film within a film; the dreadful result is more a film without a film. Subsequent comedies like Junior, in which he became the first man to give birth, miscarried at the box office. When the news leaked in 1997 that Arnold had undergone surgery...
...being picked as host. Once the financial scandals passed--bribery charges against two of the local organizers were dismissed, although the government is appealing--the security nightmare erupted. Ever since the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996, law-enforcement agencies have known they would have to reinvent Salt Lake's security. The Atlanta budget was more than doubled for Salt Lake, and after Sept. 11, it increased an additional 25%, to $300 million, for the creation of the Bubble. There will be metal detectors and spy cameras everywhere, antibiotics and vaccines stockpiled, F-16s overhead and the Secret Service...
...that launched her career a decade ago. As her last album proved, making that type of music isn’t always easy to do. Her fans have not proven themselves loyal to Mariah Carey, superstar and prima donna; to win them back, she’ll need to reinvent Mariah Carey, musician and singer...