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...America’s strongest economy. For the record, there are more psychoanalysts per capita in Buenos Aires than in any other city in the world.Argentina’s 2001 default on over $140 billion in international loans imploded the economy, precipitating a massive bank run and widespread civil unrest. When the dust settled, the Argentine peso was trading at roughly four to the American dollar, after a decade of parity. Europeans and North Americans began to trickle into Buenos Aires to take advantage of the exchange rate, and lately the media’s been abuzz about South...
...Hurricane Katrina, Random House contacted him about writing a book on what he calls “the non-military story of the postwar era.”His book, Horne says, describes how “the story [of Katrina] rivals the significance of the whole drama of civil rights,” though he is quick to point out “it happened in a few months rather than in a few decades.”The writing regimen was at times both “tough” and “brutal...
...call into question a lifetime of work fighting for civil rights, including...service at the NAACP legal defense fund, over one decision Deval Patrick made as an undergraduate at Harvard is totally ridiculous,” she said in a statement...
...original sin. Suddenly, Catholic guilt melts away and they have a voice, an opinion. Burning a Bible or a Torah may certainly catch my attention; I’ll even tolerate it. Yet the real basis of religious toleration isn’t really free speech, but mutual respect. Civil discourse, when it actually happens, is the bedrock of our society. Once religious groups start arguing based on reason instead of justifying their actions with the pretext of “faith,” they’ll earn credibility and I’ll force myself to listen...
Getting Gen. John Abizaid, the Pentagon's top Middle East commander, to admit at a Thursday hearing that it's possible Iraq "could move toward a civil war" wasn't the only coup Senate Democrats scored. The same day they also managed to plant another political time bomb, which could explode in the next three or four months over George Bush's conduct of the war, by winning approval for a new National Intelligence Estimate focusing on Iraq's growing sectarian violence...