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...President José Sarney for president of the Senate. Many in the PT view Sarney as a crony of the oligarchs who control the country's impoverished northeast. But the votes to be mined inside the progressive wing of Sarney's Brazilian Democratic Movement Party were too much to resist. Either way, Lula insists that what also leaves a third of Brazilians in poverty, and an estimated 46 million hungry, is gross inequality: 20% of the population receive 70% of the nation's income, while 3% hold almost two-thirds of its almost half a billion hectares of arable land...
Alas, my rebirth as a Harvard student is not a return to innocence. I am not strong enough to resist the collective obsession with professional unfulfillment. So I join the rest and plan anxiously for a joyless, indeterminate future...
Pacelli, who is also a Crimson editor, has always considered himself a Kentuckian by blood, although he hails from Illinois: his favorite pastimes are horse racing, gambling, bluegrass music and bourbon. When he learned his uncle was a friend of the Kentucky governor, he couldn’t resist making a small request. Soon enough, he was officially nominated and given a lifetime commission, which comes with a certificate bearing the governor’s seal, an entitlement to official deference in the state of Kentucky and a brass membership card...
...crucial test of Iraqi compliance with UN disarmament demands, which comes in a more crucial week for the Bush administration's efforts to win UN authorization for war. Buoyed by the strongly antiwar tilt of public opinion in Europe and beyond, France, Germany and Russia continue to resist moves to ditch the inspection process and authorize an invasion. But for domestic political reasons, even such staunch Bush allies as Britain's Tony Blair and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi have pressed Washington to seek a second UN resolution before going to war. Unable to secure passage of a resolution authorizing...
...biggest medical dilemma facing most humans may soon be our masses of fat. One would hope that as we begin to dissect hunger at the molecular level, we can control our weight with safe pills rather than will. People can't resist food--we didn't evolve for food being cheap; we evolved for food being scarce. So we may need science to save us from our human nature. Food without fat--it's like sex without having babies, and you know how great a revolution that triggered...