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...jumped to 48%. A third of the population earns less than $2 a day. "We have been living through a schizophrenic period," says Carlos Toranzo, a Bolivian political analyst. "We have more democracy, more respect for human rights but also increased inequality and higher unemployment." And the popular blame is being directed at what many in Latin America think of as the sponsor of globalization, the U.S. "I've not seen anything quite like this sudden loss of face," says Terry Karl, a Latin America expert at Stanford University. "The U.S. just isn't setting the agenda anymore in Latin...
...January 2005, President Bush declared that the 2004 election had been his "accountability moment." He spoke a bit too soon. The "moment," it turned out, lasted for the following 12 months. The President didn't see it coming. And who could blame him? For more than three years after 9/11, the American public had given the Administration, and indeed many authority figures, the benefit of the doubt. We were at war, even in mortal danger. Trust was essential. The bigwigs kept assuring us they knew what they were doing. And so most of us went along...
...MARSHA EVANS, 56, as president of the American Red Cross; after its response to Hurricane Katrina was widely criticized as disorganized and slow; in Washington. A onetime rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Evans, like her predecessor, clashed with the agency's 50-member board, a group some observers blame for a long-term failure to address key structural problems at the agency...
...easy to blame bad sections on students, and there’s certainly some justice in doing so: realistically, most students do not prepare all of the material for section each week. (In fact, I’d argue that, in most classes, at least half of the students have stopped doing the bulk of the reading by mid-semester.) How can we make use of an hour if we accept that most students are not ideally prepared to discuss the course material in depth...
...Saudi culture is definitely not a self-accuasatory culture. It’s a culture of blame,” Wisse said. “The question is, will it affect the way the subjects are taught...