Word: shifter
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...denies the charges.) What's more, Correa has pledged to kill free-trade talks with the U.S.; he has threatened to freeze Ecuador's foreign debt payments and says the country's economy should not "indefinitely" remain dollarized. (Ecuador switched its currency to the dollar in 2000.) Says Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington, D.C., "The U.S., especially the very strong anti-U.S. sentiment among many Ecuadorans today, is perhaps the most important issue in this election...
...Correa denies suggestions that the oil-rich Chavez is helping to fund his campaign, and Chavez, since watching his outspoken support of the leftist candidates in Peru and Mexico backfire, has been uncharacteristically quiet about Ecuador. But analysts like Shifter notes that Correa, who recently visited Chavez, feels confident he can follow the Venezuelan's lead...
...problem for Correa, Shifter points out, is that by playing "the quintessential anti-establishment candidate," one who will take on not only Ecuador's corrupt ruling class but also the military and other entrenched institutions, "you wonder how he'll be able to govern if he's elected and creates that kind of atmosphere of confrontation...
This spring Rebecca Romijn plays a news reporter in the WB's Pepper Dennis and a shape shifter in X-Men: The Last Stand...
...kids and connoisseurs alike. Here he has transported his gift for alchemizing the mundane from Japan to Western Europe a century ago. A spell instantly ages the heroine, Sophie, from 18 to 90 and lands her as a housekeeper inside the walking wonder house owned by a dishy shape shifter. Following the plot may be a burden for adults--children will revel in its complexity--but the whole enterprise has Miyazaki's air of immaculate enchantment...