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...latest tit-for-tat spat appears to be the aviation equivalent of diplomatic expulsions. As Chavez?s cult of personality grows inside Venezuela and Latin America, the Bush Administration is increasingly trying to paint him as a region-destabilizing dictator. This month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. needs to form a "united front" against Chavez as he seeks re-election later this year. Statements like this one have given Venezuela even more impetus to regard the FAA?s continued stance as political. And this latest fiasco may just be indicative of larger conflicts ahead...
...blind to the tumult that defined much of Summers’ tenure. The list of indictments is not short. A public spat with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 led to the departure of one of the dynamos of the African and African American Studies department. Then came Summers’ remarks linking proponents of a divestment movement from Israel with anti-Semitism “in their effect, if not their intent”; this accusation alienated professors who felt Summers was effectively squelching debate...
...scandals in Washington; his efforts to curb Congress's practice of slipping lobbyist-sponsored earmarks into spending bills have put him on the same page as those in the party who are most alarmed over how the deficit has exploded under Bush and the Republican Congress. McCain's public spat with Democratic rising star Senator Barack Obama has not hurt him with his fellow Republicans either. "If you pick a fight with a Hillary Clinton or an Obama, the base watches and approves," says activist Grover Norquist, who is no McCain fan. "So it sends all the right vibes...
...though the Administration says it merely wants to move the Commodity Supplemental Food Program into the Food Stamps program. And some will question why there's $150 million in the budget to promote healthy marriages and fatherhood training. The partisan bickering is no different from any other traditional Washington spat-it's just that the stakes are a lot higher...
WHAT ABOUT IMPORTING MORE LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS? Energy companies would love to ramp up the trade in LNG, and European countries grew keenly interested after Russia and Ukraine got into a nasty spat over gas supplies a few weeks ago, roiling world gas markets. But there are tall hurdles. The U.S. has just five LNG receiving terminals, and while regulators in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have approved 15 more, the projects are hardly assured. Australian firm BHP Billiton, for one, wants to construct an offshore regasification plant the size of three football fields off the coast of Oxnard, Calif...