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...other restless armies, from Guatemala to Bolivia. Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace laureate Oscar Arias, who is mediating talks between Zelaya and the coup leaders, has noted that Latin American military spending is almost double what it was five years ago, and that the region "continues to view armed forces as the final arbiter of social conflicts." For all the progress Latin Americans have made in electing their Presidents, they often fall back on old habits when removing them - whether it's oligarchies bidding soldiers do the job in Central America or populists galvanizing street mobs in the Andes...
...explained. "That's very good," Chu said with a sigh. The entire visit reminded Chu of the futuristic spirit he loved at Bell Labs. "This was a power company, but it had the flavor of a high-tech company," he told me later. "They're looking at the long view." In short, they're Wayne Gretzky - and Chu is obviously worried that we're not, that we've lost our ability to focus on long-term problems...
...visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. "The Russians don't want to recreate the Soviet Union, but they do want a system in which their neighbors pay close deference to what Moscow determines to be its vital national interests. The United States has a different view." (See pictures of Obama in Russia...
Among Orlando's tight-knit theatrical community (which includes Disney World as well as other theme parks like Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando and a long list of medieval, western and Arabian Nights dinner shows), performers were inclined to view the deaths as freak accidents rather than negligence by Disney. "It would actually be unfair to say that Disney doesn't know what they're doing and they're lax," says Breslauer, a former Disney actor...
...format has its creative advantages. Instead of telling the classic story through the eyes of a the main narrator as in the original Mahabharata, Sreedharan takes the point of view of an heretofore one- dimensional character, Bhima, one of the five Pandava brothers who defeat their cousins, the Kauravas, in tale's central battle. "Bhima has been the brawny superman of Mahabharata," says the Indian-born academic and journalist. "Here he is being presented as someone who is really sensitive and intelligent." (Watch TIME's video "Twitter Poetry on the Plinth in London...