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Chavez backers point out that he hasn't thrown one opposition leader, journalist or striking oil engineer into jail during this crisis. While polls indicate that two-thirds of the nation is fed up with him, he retains the support of a sizable swath of the poor, who never had a voice in political or economic life until his election. He was ushered back into office last April precisely because, during the two days he was in military custody, Venezuelans grew nauseated watching TV images of cogollos romping in the palace, cocktails in hand, as if it were their private...
...meet January 6th to discuss whether Trent Lott should remain as majority leader, everyone in Washington is wondering: if the Senator does bow out of the leadership post, who will take his place? The short list is Don Nickles, Mitch McConnell and Bill Frist. They represent a broad swath of the Republican ideological spectrum, and, to a man, have counted themselves as Lott's close friends. Now, they may be after...
BGLTSA Co-Chair Stephanie M. Skier ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, says the fraternity’s policy of not taking women seems to counter many of their aim of being accepting to a large swath of the gay community. “I definitely have my own beef with this fraternity and I’ve ranted about it in various contexts,” Skier s says. “I don’t know what their policy on transgendered members is, but my notion is that they would probably not include...
Though the vast majority of Indonesians practice a moderate form of Islam, the country is an attractive haven for Muslim extremists. Monitoring terrorist activity in a swath of territory that spans more than 13,000 islands would test the mettle of any government, let alone a democracy as young and fractious as Indonesia's. Since the start of her tenure last year Megawati has shied away from trying to snuff out the extremist threat, in part to placate religious conservatives like Vice President Hamzah Haz, Megawati's likely opponent in the 2004 presidential race, who has long supported radical groups...
...conflict is not a winnable one. The government of Colombia is simply not in a military position to crush FARC, and even if it were, in so doing it would leave a power vacuum that AUC would gladly fill. As Lee points out, the government handed FARC a huge swath of land in the middle of Colombia, and FARC’s forces are by no means inconsiderable—they are stronger than Colombia’s. FARC’s members are volunteers being well-paid and equipped with high-tech weaponry, all financed by the lucrative drug...