Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This year's election season across the continent was widely billed as a battle for Latin America's soul: Venezuela's contest is the last of a grueling 10 presidential races since last December that pitted Washington's globalization agenda against the more statist policies of the new Latin American left. And with leftist economist and Chavez pal Rafael Correa defeating conservative billionaire Alvaro Noboa in this week's Ecuador run-off vote, a Chavez win will give the left a 6-4 edge. But the intensity of the contest will be demonstrated elsewhere on Friday - at the inauguration...
...that can tackle Venezuela's soaring murder rate or neutralize Mexican drug gangs so vicious they're tossing the heads of decapitated rivals in streets and nightclubs. "Crime," Calderon concedes, "is a battle we are losing." Among many others. So maybe now, with the battle for Latin America's soul over, conservatives and leftists - and Washington - can focus together for once on a war to reduce the region's social and economic demons to rubble and dust...
...bigotry was the role of the people expressing it. Politicians and entertainers, after all, succeed by knowing our hearts and minds. We are, in a real way, implicated in their achievement and their disgrace. So you'd think this explosion of public ugliness might spur some kind of national soul searching. Did we somehow encourage their bigotry, by ignoring softer forms of it in our pop culture? Did they think on some level, conscious or not, that they spoke for us? Were they right...
...responsible for turning these urban docs into developing world saviors is Dr. Mark Kline, director of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI). An affable, Ed Harris look-alike, Kline is the mind, body and soul of BIPAI. He is responsible for creating the Pediatric AIDS Corps (PAC), an innovative, Peace Corps-like program for U.S. doctors interested in treating children with AIDS in the developing world, where over two million kids are currently living with...
...time has come for the anti-gay movement in America to do a bit of soul-searching. And, if the recent turmoil within its ranks is any indication, some serious therapy wouldn’t hurt either...