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...During the annual state of the nation address, or informe, on Nov. 1, Salinas was interrupted repeatedly by catcalls and howls of disapproval from parties of the right and left. The irreverence stood in stark contrast to the respectful reception usually accorded a President in Mexico. When Salinas claimed that a new electoral code had been endorsed across the political spectrum and that a reliable voters' registration list was being drawn up, the opposition erupted in chants of "We repudiate electoral fraud...
...Baghdad burn after all. To make matters worse, Israeli officials had to watch as the U.S. Senate voted last week to cancel Egypt's $6.7 billion military debt, marking the first time that Egypt will receive a better deal than Israel from the U.S., a stark reminder to Israelis of their diminishing importance as a strategic ally in the region...
...finance committee has a mission that stands in stark contrast to those of the council's four other standing committees. While the members of other committees spend their time drafting wordy resolutions and sitting on student-faculty boards, the 17-member tribunal that is the finance committee rules on which student groups deserve council money, and which do not--though the full council has the final...
There is more in My Son's Story than domestic tensions. South African author Nadine Gordimer has never acquired the luxury of believing that private lives can proceed in a political vacuum. The stark choices imposed by apartheid allow no such privilege. And so the three characters who meet in the lobby of a recently desegregated movie house in Johannesburg represent more than the sum of personal discomforts caused by this encounter. The father and son are "colored," as determined by South Africa's laws, and the woman in question is white...
This deadlock of democracy transcends the budget morass and will not be broken with the November elections. The underlying question it raises is stark: Why is the nation unable to govern itself...