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...Flores, was widely hailed as a hero for firing at the 30-year-old man who had tried to force his way into the military man's Mexico City home. "Of course he did the right thing," wrote Felipe Alcocer in one on-line forum on the incident. "I wish everyone would act in the same way and get rid of this anti-social scum...
...sidetracked by talk about China's human rights record, a topic that has long been a source of friction between the two nations. Clinton herself gave a strident speech promoting human rights during a 1995 women's conference in Beijing. (Read "Will Beijing Respond to Clinton?s Diplomatic Wish List...
...sudden stiffen his beer-sodden body and pull himself together again into something of beauty. But that’s the problem, because that’s exactly the logic that keeps fooling the AC’s casino clientele and Morrissey himself. They think that, if only they wish, everything will be as it was in the 80’s. But, sadly for Morrissey (and for those of us who would be his fans), that just is not the case. —Staff writer Sanders I. Bernstein can be reached at sbernst@fas.harvard.edu...
...with a group of other minor constitutional changes, failed in a national referendum in late 2007, and a picture emerges of a Venezuelan dictator using a hollow patina of democracy to legitimize his aspirations to hold power for life. Since his victory, Chávez has already revealed his wish to remain in power until 2049, when, at 95, he would be older than his inspiration, Fidel Castro, is today. We’ll see if Venezuela’s oil wealth can last until then. For the moment, it’s clear that this new referendum...
...couldn’t actually keep complete fidelity to the sensibility.6.FM: It seems that you’re hoping it will be kind of a gateway drug into these 18th-century novels. What would you hope that a reader would gain just by reading it? JL: I do wish that it brought people to read more 18th-century fiction and historical materials. The book is supposed to sort of make the reader the historian... it is totally didactic in that sense, not as a “gateway drug” to 18th-century fiction, but ideally to get people...