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...wisdom and he gives me problems to resolve; I ask him for prosperity and he gives me brain and muscles to work," Moreno writes, using terms that could be found in many Christian sermons preached from Mississippi to Brazil. But on the next page, there's a switch to phrases strikingly similar to those coined by revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. "It is better to be a master of one peso than a slave of two; it is better to die fighting head on than on your knees and humiliated; it is better to be a living dog than a dead lion...
...several years now, the U.S. and NATO have been trying to dissuade poppy growers in Afghanistan - either by force or by encouraging them to switch to other crops. It doesn't seem to be working. Why not? Well, one reasons why farmers grow poppy is that it typically earns more than other licit crops. Anyone who has driven down Afghanistan's spine-crushing highways knows the challenges of growing fruits, gapes, oranges ... they would be completely bruised and destroyed by the time you get them to market, if you even...
...Dennis Ross is not naive. I believe he is if he thinks Iranians can be persuaded to switch focus to the economy - and question why their regime is not spinning money and enriching the country - while their centrifuges are "spinning day and night" enriching uranium. If the North Koreans, who are far poorer, can live with this set of priorities out of a sense of national pride, why can't the Iranians? Kangayam Rangaswamy, WAUNAKEE...
...Dennis Ross is not naive. I believe he is if he thinks Iranians can be persuaded to switch focus to the economy - and question why their regime is not spinning money and enriching the country - while their centrifuges are "spinning day and night" enriching uranium. If the North Koreans, who are far poorer, can live with this set of priorities out of a sense of national pride, why can't the Iranians? Kangayam Rangaswamy, Waunakee...
When the G-8 summit begins in Italy on July 8, it will undoubtedly garner a flood of attention for its host. But while Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was planning to bask in the results of his bold, last-minute decision to switch the site of the meeting from La Maddalena on Sardinia to L'Aquila, the central city still reeling from April's deadly earthquake, it is the stories of Berlusconi as a party guy that are capturing the imagination...