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Some of the loudest challenges are coming from Mexico's eight opposition parties. The largest by far is the National Action Party, a conservative organization with strength in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua and a growing constituency among the middle class. Traditionally, the P.A.N. has had two weaknesses: a failure to build grass-roots support and a tendency to recede into the shadows except at election time. The P.A.N.'s newly elected leader, Luis Alvarez, 67, is determined, however, to make his party a truly national...
...hope I can convert from the weight, which is more of a strength event, to the hammer. The hammer is better suited to me because it requires speed and technique," he said...
...highly regarded teachers who have left Harvard junior posts to distinguish themselves as full professors at other schools. This trend has motivated Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to make tenuring Harvard's own top young scholars a top priority, and the Faculty recognizes that its future strength may depend on the dean's success. The challenge now is for Harvard to identify outstanding ability--both, faculty members say, in research and teaching--early in a scholarly career...
Still, OPEC is expected to regain its strength sooner or later, and the U.S. is doing little to defend itself against a revitalized cartel. American oil production, which had held fairly steady since the late 1970s, declined last year. Total output fell by 3%, or 300,000 bbl. a day. The Department of Energy projects that U.S. oil production will fall by an additional 440,000 bbl. a day through...
...radicals are unlikely to renounce violence for long if their newfound pacifism proves unproductive. The student movement has gained too much strength, and is too deeply committed to change, to shrink from confrontation if it is felt to be necessary. "We will try this for the first half of the year," says a student leader at Seoul National University. "But we do not know how the government will react to these new tactics. They may be even more brutal, and then things will escalate once again. I can't tell how it will develop." Given South Korea's tradition...