Word: whips
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Corruption is key. South America did need the discipline and budget austerity of U.S.-backed reforms, which freed the region from crippling hyperinflation and ushered in hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign investment. But they couldn't whip the plague of corrupt elites, absentee judicial systems and addiction to foreign capital that made Latin American capitalism as ripe for abuse and collapse as an Enron office suite. Says Stanford University Latin America scholar Terry Karl: "The Washington Consensus just further concentrated economic and political power in a region that already had the worst inequality in the world...
...nine-year-old, music practice can be a drag, meaning parents typically have to wield the baton, if not the whip. Anoushka Shankar was no exception when it came to shirking homework on the special miniature sitar her folks had made for her when she was that age. "They would sit me down periodically and say 'You don't have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with...
...make effective foreign policy in the Middle East, President Bush has had to learn to ignore the leadership of his own party on Capitol Hill. And it's not hard to see why: Last week, House Republican whip Tom DeLay proclaimed that the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights were not occupied, as U.S. foreign policy maintains, but are in fact part of Israel. Now House Republican leader Dick Armey has reportedly upped the ante, suggesting that Israel had no reason to hand over occupied territory to the Palestinians and that instead "the Palestinians should build their national home...
...movies, the inmates would be getting ready to make their escape, or to whip a team of bullying screws. But Siwa has no time for the shenanigans perpetrated by prisoners in films like Victory or The Longest Yard. Guards flank the field, sticks unsheathed. But there are carrots too: inmates are allowed to watch live broadcasts of the real World Cup, provided they don't brawl or gamble...
...claim an even 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...