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...populist record while running Mexico's gargantuan capital was largely positive. And opponents' attempts to paint him as a Mexican Hugo Ch?vez, the radically leftist and stridently anti-U.S. President of Venezuela, have gained little traction. Part of that is because L?pez takes pains to pair his social welfare ambitions with an investment-friendly business sense that Wall Street, for example, has found appealing in other modern Latin leftists like Brazilian President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva...
...with companies abroad. "If we could give the codes to the British government and not to a British company, that would be one thing," he says. But such arguments only reinforce the rising doubts in the minds of some British officials about the solidity of the underlying Britain-U.S. alliance. "We've long had troubles with Washington not considering us a full, trustworthy partner," says a British government source. "The JSF is only the most potent symbol...
...time we were still wrapped in Harvard mode, which meant keeping the spontaneity at bay, but at least we started out in the right mind-set. This was senior year and not the time for important sightseeing in interesting countries. Instead, the mantra was “traditional State U. Spring Break.” Food, drinks, beach, and sun—everything else was to be forgotten.Of course, we had to do some research. Group members were each assigned one of the possible locations, which they investigated and reported back to the group at a specific meeting...
...Many have argued that the U.S. pressure against Jaafari and his current chief political ally, firebrand cleric Moqtada al Sadr, could actually backfire and bolster their position with a wave of anti-U.S. sentiment. Nonetheless, internal pressures on Jaafari to withdraw are mounting. On the same day that Rice and Straw made their visit, a senior member of the Shi'ite alliance asked Jaafari to step down, making a schism likely within the national assembly's leading voting block. If a faction of the alliance (the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) backs out of its agreement...
...briefly broke off talks over a new government; they claimed the raid was a massacre of innocent civilians praying at a mosque, while the U.S. and Iraqi commanders said it wasn't a mosque at all, but the home of violent militias. Many Shi'ite leaders upped their anti-U.S. rhetoric, demanding that the Iraqi government be put in charge of security operations still run by the U.S. And fighters of Sadr's Mehdi army, whose men were killed in Sunday's clash, warned darkly that they were ready, once again, to fight the Americans...