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...Saturday, April 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly handed President Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano's seminal left-leaning tome on the foreign exploitation of Latin America. By Monday, April 20, the book - first published in 1971 - had skyrocketed to #2 on Amazon.com's bestseller list. It seems as though the Venezuelan leader, a shrewd showman, knew that his gift would draw attention not just to the book itself, but to the dramatic tale told within...
...Saturday night, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub was awash with booze, boas, and bared backs as cross-dressed students and spectators gathered to celebrate Drag Night, an annual event hosted by the Harvard Queer Students and Allies. The event featured drag musical artists as varied as mermaid “Fishy Snatch” and farm-boy “Oliver Heart,” both of whose stage names have been used in lieu of their real names for this article to protect their privacy. Consistent with the drag tradition, their performances offered a departure from...
...García Márquez? (Although I had to admit that was to impress women.) He shook his head and handed me Eduardo Galeano's The Open Veins of Latin America - the same book Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made a show of giving Barack Obama on Saturday before Obama's meeting with South American leaders at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad. (See TIME's photos of Carnival in Trinidad...
...show Saberi some leniency when it reviews her conviction (the date has not yet been determined). Originally arrested three months ago for purchasing a bottle of wine - possession of alcohol is illegal in the Islamic Republic - Saberi was later charged with espionage, then quickly tried, found guilty and, on Saturday, sentenced to eight years in prison. But because Iranian appeals courts review both matters of law and fact (they are more like a retrial than an American-style appeals system), the appeals court could reduce or overturn Saberi's sentence on procedural grounds, charge her with lesser offenses, or even...
...party, charged it was in fact "the behavior of Madame Royal that dishonors France." Citing the Elysée's denial that Sarkozy ever made the comments, Paillé argued that Royal's saying sorry for them "tarnishes our nation's image abroad for reasons that were false." On Saturday, another UMP spokesman, Frédéric Lefebvre, went even further, suggesting that Royal's making apologies usually reserved for the presidential office that Sarkozy beat her to indicates she needs "psychological help...