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Oberholtzer, who is a third-year law student, defeated a series of competitors by answering multiple-choice questions--with subjects ranging from Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to the hit film Jerry Maguire--and expanded his winnings from $100,000 to his wallet-bursting total...
...different voice to Western audiences than they use at home - after all, Moscow's new security doctrine, which Putin signed off on only three weeks ago, defined the U.S. not as Russia's partner, but as its primary strategic rival. Analysts have likened Putin to former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet - who conducted free-market economic reforms under an iron-fisted political regime - and even to Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who ruled the Soviet Union in the early '80s and pressed for modernization of the economy while maintaining an authoritarian grip on society and a competitive relationship with...
...General Augusto Pinochet looks set to regain his freedom, but not necessarily his dignity. Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw announced Tuesday that a panel of doctors had found the 84-year-old former Chilean dictator medically unfit to stand trial, which leaves Britain inclined to end extradition proceedings and send Pinochet home. Straw has given Spain, which wants to extradite the general to stand trial on charges of torture arising out of the deaths of some of the 3,000 political opponents slain during his 16-year reign, until Tuesday to persuade him otherwise, but has made clear that...
...state. This way, the general gets to go home, but without the vindication he desires - and the impact of being shamed in the West can't be underestimated on a man who rationalized the excesses of his regime as necessary to the defense of Western ideals. The General Augusto Pinochet who returns to Chile after 15 months of the utter powerlessness and uncertainty of a prisoner awaiting trial - and an unsympathetic hearing in the court of international public opinion - will be a diminished man in every respect...
Word scramble answers: 1) Elizabeth Dole; 2) Donald Trump; 3) Edmund Morris; 4) Bill Gates; 5) General Augusto Pinochet; 6) Mayor Rudolph Giuliani