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...boot camp he went on to officer cadet school and specialized in infantry training. Myat San is one of a rare breed at Harvard: the international military veteran. Many countries impose compulsory military service which young men and women must fulfill before seeking university education. Students from countries like Switzerland and Germany often arrive at Harvard fitter, older, and more mature (at least in riflery skills) than the average 18-year-old freshman. Myat San, from Singapore, faced two and a half years of service after graduating from high school. And the first three months of training were no walk...
...YOUR NEW MOVIE. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE HER? Well, she's a fixer. If something goes wrong in the upper circles, she comes in and cleans up the mess or negotiates between parties. And that means that she's not judgmental. She's kind of neutral, a sort of Switzerland. And in my book that's what makes...
...Costa Rica, largely immune to the dictatorships, corruption and grinding poverty that mark so many of its neighbors, has long been considered the ?Switzerland of Central America.? But in recent years it has been plagued by a moribund economy and a string of presidential bribery scandals that have made it a ripe target for left-leaning pols like Solis. Arias, meanwhile, ran a bland campaign that seemed to rest on his Nobel laurels. ?Such a weighty name was supposed to sweep away any opponent,? says political analyst Victor Ramirez, ?but [voters] proved it wasn?t enough to reconquer? a population...
...will make it even harder to get Costa Ricans, the lone holdouts in Central America, to ratify CAFTA. As a result, what the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs called ?the Bush Administration?s alarmingly foundering Latin America policy? still faces an uphill battle in Central America's Switzerland...
...Powers That Will Be The debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, over whether India or China will be the dominant economic power in 2050 [Feb. 6] omitted one factor: democracy. Does anyone really think that the world's largest economy could be managed by the Chinese Communist Party? The creativity of democracy, whether it is in India or the U.S., will be what leads the way. Richard Gordon Peebles, Scotland...