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...model may very well be what the region needs. Chávez’s deadly sin, however, is omission: His rhetoric selectively forgets that an aged Bolívar fell into disgrace by declaring himself dictator by “organic decree” in August, 1828.Through this vicious cycle of shortsighted plans, Latin America remains trapped in arrested development. Politics there have become a tragedy; and the revival of an authoritarian past, a historical farce.Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Eliot House...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Arrested Development | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...treat these prisoners any differently? Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks to all our fears when he calls them “some of the most brutal, vicious people in the world.” But that accusation is as inaccurate as it is manipulative: A study at Seton Hall University found that only eight percent of the Guantanamo detainees were Al Qaeda fighters, and only 30 percent were determined to be Al Qaeda members—and that’s using a definition of membership that is broad enough to include anyone who ever talked...

Author: By Justin S. Becker and Elise Liu | Title: Hiding Away Habeas | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

...performance. In some ways this theater was very interesting—quite complex in the staging and physical layers—but the weakest and least interesting parts of the production often was the text, which frustrated me,” she says.Her first play, “My Vicious Angel,” received critical acclaim in her native Australia. Following the success of “My Vicious Angel,” Evans decided to pursue an MFA in playwriting and a Ph.D. at Brown University. She has written five full-length plays and multiple short plays...

Author: By Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Playwright Spins Social Parable in Providence | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...slogans will seem naïve isn’t really prescient if it was written decades later—the play, and Steinemann’s directing, is much more focused on the characters, and the show is stronger for it. Myrna reveals a bit of a psychotically vicious streak that makes her far more entertaining, while Myra robs a bank and attempts to flee to Canada. Both plotlines allow Hecht to shine as she teeters on the edge of mania, while Kroop, as Myrna’s son Kenny, has the largely thankless task of being quietly nonplussed...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bipolar ‘Twins’ Lacks Cohesion | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

Such spectacular incidents overshadow the almost daily clashes between the rival Shi'ite militias that inevitably kill and maim civilians. Diwaniyah now nearly rivals Basra as a vicious free-for-all in the growing civil war among the Shi'a. While none of the recent fighting can be directly linked to any outside group, local security officials say that they can now add to the list of troublemakers elements of al-Qaeda and other Sunni Arab fighters, who appear to be taking advantage of the chaos to regain a toehold in the region and accelerate the flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraqi Violence Moves South | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

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