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...economist in the 1970s and '80s, Piñera followed Chile's free-market orthodoxy, but on the stump today, he pledged not to cut social programs. "On the contrary," he said recently, "we're going to strengthen them." Says Michael Shifter, vice president of the InterAmerican Dialogue in Washington, D.C.: "Chilean voters have been eager to see that kind of pragmatic evolution from the right." (See how Pinochet fell from power, from TIME's archive...
...conceived his first blockbuster, an exhibition of works connected to royal courts, which he gave the unofficial but catchy name Things for Kings. Very soon he negotiated both the acquisition of the ancient Temple of Dendur from Egypt - over the opposition of Jacqueline Kennedy, who wanted it installed in Washington as a memorial to JFK - and the construction of a giant glass-enclosed addition to the museum to house...
Headley was born Daood Gilani in Washington, D.C. His father was Pakistani; his mother, American. The Chicago resident's alleged involvement with the radical Pakistani Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) began nearly three years before the Mumbai attacks. In late 2005 he was told by his handlers to travel to India to do surveillance, so he changed his name in February 2006 to David Headley "in order to present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani," according to the complaint filed in U.S. district court in Chicago. He allegedly made the first of several...
...Washington, FBI field office spokeswoman Katherine Schweit was not at liberty to discuss the matter because it is under investigation. "We are working with Pakistan authorities to determine their identities and the nature of their business there," she said in a statement. In Islamabad, a spokesman said the U.S. embassy was still awaiting details from Pakistani authorities. (See pictures of Pakistani subcultures...
...make matters worse, Uganda's ostrich-like denials on homosexuality seem to be tolerated by international donors such as Washington and the U.N. Even in 2009 - a year when the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, gave $285 million for HIV and AIDS programs in Uganda - just one program targeting "men who have sex with men" has been allowed to register with the government, a prerequisite for access to international funding. The program, the Most at Risk Populations Network, received just $5,000. "We used to print educational materials, but it was very expensive," Peter...