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...plays into the Zimbabweans' belief that they live in a version of George Orwell's Animal Farm, where some animals are more equal than others. Just a day after the new government was sworn in, all the Ministers - almost 40 of them - were driving around in luxury Mercedes Benzes. Each was allocated an all-terrain vehicle. Their deputies were each assigned a luxury car as well...
When Calderón was sworn in as President in December 2006, the carnage had become too much to ignore. He began a military offensive against the gangs that now employs some 40,000 troops. Calderón's supporters insist the brutal counteroffensive by the gangs is a sign that they were rattled. Critics call the relentless violence proof that Calderón took a baseball bat to a hornet's nest but wasn't ready for the hornets - and point out that the Mexican army is not particularly well trained for the urban-guerrilla nature of drug wars. Either...
...said that he would be climbing back on the bandwagon. This helped trigger more public sparring over how valuable content is when it comes from the pens of real reporters and not off the pages of news aggregators like Google News and The Huffington Post who, according to their sworn enemies in traditional media, live off the effort, expense, and ingenuity of institutions like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Associated Press...
...belt, Ward considers his ability to connect with people one of his primary assets. But because he joined the Council only eight months before the upcoming November election, Ward has yet to simultaneously catch up on City governance and reignite his once-failed campaign.In the month since he was sworn in, Ward has sponsored two resolutions and been appointed chairman of the University Relations committee, replacing Murphy. He assumes the post at a time when the Council has been repeatedly criticizing Harvard and MIT for laying off low-income employees. But despite the current relevance of that position...
...right-wing Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was sworn in on Tuesday, and its refusal to accept a two-state solution with the Palestinians has already set it on a collision course with the Obama Administration...