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Just 13 months ago Mejia and his cohort were global celebrities. A world used to watching Latin American students march for Che Guevara causes did a double take: these undergraduates were pouring out of campuses to oppose the new standard bearer of the Latin left. And they weren't all children of right-wing oligarchs. Many were leftists themselves, with first names like Stalin. Their beef, they said, wasn't so much with Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution, which many of them acknowledged had finally enfranchised the poor in a country that has the hemisphere's largest oil reserves...
...Merrill losses, which weren't publicly revealed until early January, have angered shareholders, some of whom have sued the company for not informing them sooner. And last week, the losses also led Lewis to ask Merrill's top executive, John Thain, to resign for failing to keep BofA officials apprised of his firm's bottom-line problems. Thain says Lewis knew all along. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Abed Rabu sits alone beside his blasted home. "I don't understand. I'm not Hamas. My girls weren't Hamas. Why did they do this to us?" he asks. In a reply to TIME's query, the military press office said, "The Israel Defense Forces is an ethical army and ... has no knowledge of such an incident...
...cost and the insufficient size of tax cuts. But then it was liberals' turn to be up in arms over Obama's "betrayal," with some bloggers and pundits accusing the President of "throwing low-income women under the bus" in a pointless effort to woo Republicans who ultimately weren't going to vote for the package anyway. (See pictures of Obama's Inauguration...
...Which is not to say there weren't symbolic gestures. But the groups Obama lavished his attention on were an unlikely bunch: diplomats, Muslims and Republicans. The gestures involved a geographic humility that was a clean break from the presidential past: he went to the State Department, to the Capitol, and appeared on the Al Arabiya television network before granting an interview to any of the American channels. In each case, the gesture was made more for its long-term effect than its short-term bang...