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...where talking is taken as a form of action, that theater most often becomes absurd: the shoe banged on the table, the smell of sulfur in the room. Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, star of last year's show, skipped the session this year, perhaps to tend to a new state-owned movie studio designed to help break "the dictatorship of Hollywood." But he did take time out to call his Iranian friend and compliment him for standing up to the Great Satan. And it all occurred in a week when Burmese monks were in the streets risking their lives...
...vez Time Why don't we join Venezuela and put our clocks back 30 minutes this fall - and leave them there [Sept. 3]? The one-hour change each fall and spring is an unnecessary annoyance. Although it was a useful idea for wartime factory workers, today it is only a pain. Ask any parent with young children. Georgia Gibbs, Victoria, Canada...
...Your Clocks to Chávez...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wants to help citizens improve their metabolism and efficiency, so on Jan. 1, 2008, he plans to move clocks ahead 30 minutes. During a seven-hour radio address, Chávez said that "the human brain is conditioned by sunlight" and Technology Minister Hector Navarro noted that more daylight hours would benefit "all Venezuelans in their jobs and studies...
SPRING FORWARD Changing the clock puts Venezuela in a different time zone from its neighbors and could make travel and trade more difficult. But Chávez, say critics, already controls Venezuela's congress and most of its Supreme Court, so why not try to control time...