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Aristide came of age in the Roman Catholic Church in the 1970s, at a time when priests throughout Latin America were developing the concept of liberation theology. As a young seminarian in Haiti, however, he was known more as a biblical scholar than a firebrand. But when he returned in 1981 after studying abroad, he was nonplussed by the poverty of the Haitian people. "I had been away for some time," he said about the shock of returning, "and so my eyes were reopened to the squalor and misery." Ordained in 1982, Aristide became a liberationist and soon found himself...
Second, with today's shark-like journalists constantly on the prowl for the next Gary Hart, no one--especially not a Rhodes Scholar like Clinton--would run for the White House and expect to get away with flagrant, numerous or recent affairs, much less illegitimate kids...
Despite its recent shift towards democracy, Czechoslovakia still faces serious obstacles to reform, a leading Czech legal scholar warned a gathering of students, professors and community leaders yesterday...
...hour-long question and answer session, the Czech scholar expressed support for a movement by the country's ethnic Slovaks to split from Czechoslovakia...
...action. Discussions to get rid of tactical nuclear weapons -- artillery shells, warheads on short-range missiles -- may bog down in minutiae. So, said Bush in effect, don't bother. Just junk those weapons. All of them. Now. And hope that induces the Soviets to follow. Says Michael Mandelbaum, a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations: "The Bush plan is a combination of a bold stroke and bowing to the inevitable. Bush is getting out ahead -- not a whole lot, but enough...