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...opponents, however, say Uribe concentrated his power in his second term and that four more years of his leadership would have threatened vital institutional checks and balances. His second term has been marred by scandals over the illegal wiretapping of his opponents by the state intelligence agency, human-rights abuses by the army and links of his political allies to paramilitary groups. Critics of Uribismo say it has brought stability at the expense of human rights, ceding too much control to the military...
Outstanding performances in the water explain only part of Harvard’s success at Ivies. Leadership outside of the pool was vital in boosting team morale, especially given the close points race with Princeton...
...employed more than 35,000 locals since it began early this month, at a cost of about $175,000 a day. (Workers earn about $4.50 a day, slightly more than Haiti's minimum wage, UNDP officials say, but not enough to siphon workers from the country's other vital economic sectors.) But the goal is 100,000 workers - a number that will require more than the $25.5 million the UNDP has so far garnered in donations and pledges for the project, which is why the agency has been bringing celebrities like Angelina Jolie and recent American Idol winners to Haiti...
...wrong war - a criticism he has consistently directed at the U.S. military as well during his three-year tenure, chiding it for buying wonder weapons for hypothetical wars while soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq lack armor and spy drones. "Despite the need to spend more on vital equipment for ongoing missions, the alliance has been unwilling to fundamentally change how it sets priorities and allocates resources," Gates said. He praised Denmark for giving up its submarine fleet - who knew? - in order to double the size of its expeditionary forces...
...wants to recenter and strengthen these relations on economic and business ties in Africa - especially to counter China's big advances - and Rwanda is vital to that," says Pap Ndiaye, a specialist in black history in Europe, Africa and the U.S. at the School of Advanced Social Science Studies in Paris. "Despite his early promises to change France's relationships with Africa, he's mostly kept Françafrique intact. His very significant gesture to restore relations with Rwanda may prove the first real move towards change...