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...brighter by the time the 2012 election rolls around. Or maybe not. France's Socialist Party remains dysfunctional and divided, it's true, but recent polls suggest that Dominique Strauss-Kahn - a socialist who currently heads the International Monetary Fund in Washington - would beat Sarkozy were a vote held today...
...president of the school's College Libertarians. "If they truly want a culture of health, I expect them to go through all our cafeterias and get rid of all our Taco Bells, all our pizza places." Students might want to enjoy those Burrito Supremes while they can. In today's health-obsessed culture, those may be next...
...should Notre Dame's. It's great that NBC still broadcasts every Irish home game; it indicates a nostalgic hunger out there for a less cynical college football tradition. But Notre Dame today has an obligation to put its scholarly tradition on its highest pedestal - higher than even its football coach messiahs...
...Pinochet, has deflected charges that he's a right-wing lapdog by embracing progressive causes like gay rights - a stance that has scandalized the country's Catholic Church. As an economist in the 1970s and '80s, Piñera followed Chile's free-market orthodoxy, but on the stump today, he pledged not to cut social programs. "On the contrary," he said recently, "we're going to strengthen them." Says Michael Shifter, vice president of the InterAmerican Dialogue in Washington, D.C.: "Chilean voters have been eager to see that kind of pragmatic evolution from the right." (See how Pinochet fell...
...provoked charges of brutality after the shooting of children, journalists and other bystanders. Three Mapuches youths have been killed, and Caifal claims two others were shot in the eyes. What's more, whereas left-wing terrorist groups garnered little public sympathy during Pinochet's rule, opinion polls in Chile today show widespread support for Mapuche efforts to regain land...