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Just as important, Lula has steered Brazil between the Scylla and Charybdis of the right-wing Bush Administration and left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, whose clashes have rocked Latin America. In Washington, Lula is seen as an important ally. "Our relationship is solid--there are lots of points of convergence," says Christopher McMullen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. But while Lula bonds with Bush over biofuels--Brazil is a global pioneer in that area--he's also huddling with Chávez over plans to turn South America into an integrated economic bloc along...
...only as a matter of convenience.There is no objective correlation between the behavior of the Islamists and the religion of Islam, just as there is no objective correlation between the events of September 11 and America’s supposed misdeeds. There is no clear causal reason for either relationship. Amis explains this lack of causality quite succinctly by saying that “we are not dealing in reasons because we are not dealing in reason.â€Amis knows reason, and that is all. He may be able to recognize, where America cannot, that we have...
...ship of fools, and it’s a testament to his talent as an actor that Victor flirts with his own psychological undoing in the film’s climax.Anjelica Huston gives a typically fantastic performance as Victor’s senile mother. The tumultuous relationship between the adolescent Victor and Huston is one of the few things that Gregg seems to get right. These flashbacks are the only scenes that meaningfully treat Victor’s need to fill his parental void. while Victor bounces between foster families, Houston, a criminal and pseudo-terrorist, steals him away...
...while also learning about culture in the ’60s and ’70s. Passim also continues to strengthen its ties to Harvard students. In addition to offering 10-dollar rush tickets to Harvard undergraduates for special events like their anniversary concert, it has formed a close relationship with Veritas Records, a student-run group that provides musicians on campus the services of a record label. Starting last spring, the club has scheduled roughly two nights a semester for Veritas Records that will give student musicians the opportunity to perform for an audience, and it will also create...
...problem for Zardari is that U.S. impatience with Pakistan's efforts against the militants risks undermining his government's efforts to win the allegiance of the tribes along the border in order to isolate the extremists, and to win political support more broadly. U.S. actions also complicate Zardari's relationship with the army, which has been a lot more strident in its opposition to such operations than the government has been. This has created pressure on Zardari to amplify his own opposition to U.S. attacks, which he this week termed a "violation of the U.N. charter." The Pakistani leader urged...