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...deserved some of that billing, although it was overblown... [Now] Hoover is seen as a shrewd bureaucratic genius who cared less about crime than about perpetuating his crime-busting image... He was a petty man of towering personal hates. There was more than a tinge of racism in his vicious vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr.... His informers, infiltrators and wiretappers delved into the activities of even the most innocuous and nonviolent civil rights and antiwar groups, trampling on the rights of citizens to express grievances against their Government... As an administrator, he was an erratic, unchallengeable czar, banishing agents...
...bigger victory: he lived to see election day. In a nation where politics often resembles Russian roulette--a mayor is murdered every three weeks or so in Colombia--Uribe became an especially vulnerable target for assassination when he declared himself the candidate who, if elected, would whip Colombia's vicious and seemingly invincible guerrilla armies. By the time the one-year campaign was over, the largest rebel group, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, had tried to kill Uribe at least three times, most recently by bombing his motorcade. Though the candidate emerged unscathed, the attempts on his life...
...palpable that, according to local press reports, Thaksin endured a chewing-out last week by Chief Privy Councillor Prem Tinsulanonda. Thaksin's intentions have been called into question because his company, Shin Corporation, has signed an agreement to provide Burma with satellite services. "We're trapped in a vicious cycle," says Chulalongkorn's Panitan. "Things will get more tense before they get better...
...which a strong dollar and strong financial markets led to further investment in the U.S., which led to a stronger dollar and stronger financial markets," says an analysis by Bridgewater Associates, a U.S. fund manager. "It is our view that the virtuous circle will now likely flip to a vicious cycle as poor performance of U.S. assets leads to a drying-up of foreign demand." That could be bad news for U.S. markets because foreigners own 13% of the U.S. equity market, 24% of U.S. corporate bonds and 40% of U.S. treasury bonds, according to Bridgewater. In a survey published...
...thing is, wars are rarely fought over dumps. Nepal's countryside, now being made a hell by vicious, marauding Maoists, is simultaneously a picture of bucolic paradise, rivaled perhaps only by Afghanistan's northern mountains in springtime. Cambodia's civil war raged against a backdrop of some of the world's most stunning architecture?Angkor Wat and its surrounding Khmer temples?while the battlefields where 65,000 people have died in two decades in northern Sri Lanka are lush jungles of palms and ponds alive with kingfishers, green parrots and black and yellow longtails. Kashmir in May?as the snow...