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...countries, Brazil and Mexico, as well as in coca producers like Peru and Ecuador. Leftists have toppled conservative governments in Uruguay and Honduras, and socialist Michelle Bachelet is favored to win Chile's presidential runoff on Jan. 15. To punctuate the situation, the radical left-wing President of oil-rich Venezuela, Hugo Chávez--the "new mayor of the Latin American street," says Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs--is all but certain to be re-elected at year...
...electricity. Large numbers of such solar-power plants could be installed in hot deserts and other sunny areas. Iran claims that it needs nuclear power, but Europe and the U.S. are worried that the technology could be diverted to support the building of nuclear weapons. Iran already has a rich source of energy in the sunlight of its deserts. Europe and the U.S. could call Iran's bluff by offering to build enough solar-power plants to supply all the country's needs. It would be an inexpensive way to reduce worries about how to restrict the proliferation of nuclear...
...visceral and kinetic levels that an attentive viewer can feel the show's meaning. Seeing the show for the first time is like falling in love with a beautiful person who speaks another language: you miss the shadings but get the passion. Guiding your emotions is Ren? Dup?r?'s rich, throbbingly romantic music - easily the year's best new score. Sumptuous music, an engaging story, jaw-dropping visual grandeur... KA is what I said: great theater...
Simon writes, “It would be ridiculous to join a military you don’t agree with because you think it needs more rich people.” He is right and not only because the military already has enough rich people. Harvard students should join the military because they are American citizens who must bear a proportionate sacrifice along with everyone else, rich or poor...
...Bernstein were when they uncovered Watergate in the Nixon administration? Or is Woodward too close to his sources in the Bush administration to see the wider scenario at play?The latter charge has been levied at Woodward in the past month by such press gadflies as Frank Rich ’71, the New York Times columnist; Jay Rosen, former chair of the journalism department at New York University; and even Nora Ephron, Bernstein’s ex-wife.Also unclear is how much can be gleaned from Woodward’s comment about Novak’s source. Woodward is widely...