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...security may trump the economy in the minds of voters, which will help Molina. The bulk of Colombian cocaine en route to the United States passes through Guatemala and the narco industry has had an impact even on the country's politics. Several alleged drug kingpins ran for local office in areas along key trafficking routes during the first round of voting in September...
...story of this butt-kicking is a quin-tessential Washington tale, illustrating how a single special interest with a single-minded devotion to a cause can trump a broad coalition and the national interest. The Senate is considering a similar bill, and a reform effort led by Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana seems likely to meet a similar fate. The Bush Administration has made noises about a veto; Kind says the President, famously reluctant to admit mistakes, confided in a private chat that he regrets signing the lavish 2002 bill. But it's never wise to bet against the farm...
...Getting an agreement meant resolving squabbles, often driven by weak national governments trying to score domestic political points, over numerous obscure protocols, declarations, opt-ins and opt-outs. Among the arcana: How exactly does one count seats in the European Parliament? How much power should national parliaments have to trump legislation at the E.U. level? And can a member state freeze unfavorable legislation even if outvoted by its counterparts...
...something infinitely milder that calls itself communitarianism. The term is not as familiar, and communitarians are far less organized as a movement than libertarians, ironically enough. But in general communitarians emphasize society rather than the individual and believe that group responsibilities (to family, community, nation, the globe) should trump individual rights...
...sheer number of siblings in a family can also trump birth order. The 1% income difference that Black detected from child to child tends to flatten out as you move down the age line, with a smaller earnings gap between a third and fourth child than between a second and third. The IQ-boosting power of tutoring, meanwhile, may actually have less influence in small families, with parents of just two or three kids doing most of the teaching, than in the six- or eight-child family, in which the eldest sibs have to pitch in more. Since the Norwegian...