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...origins of the Cold War), but it is not necessary that you do so. It will also help if you share Buckley's delight in the English language. He runs words through his fingers like doubloons. He likes to superimpose a trelliswork of formulations from the Greek or Latin (grids of the apodictic, the epistemological, the asymptotic) upon the subject at hand. Lacking the Latinate, he goes to the Latin - "pari passu," "tu quoque." Either you enjoy these linguistic plumage displays, as I do, or else you think he is merely showing...
...Lagos, who was briefly jailed under the dictatorship, his government is quite happy to see Pinochet on the defensive. "For the most part this is simply going through the motions of stripping Pinochet of his immunity and of his glory in order to correct the historical record," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Given his rapidly declining health he's unlikely ever to make it to trial...
...running a dictatorship, a repressive dictatorship." There is, of course, no disputing the argument that China's communist leadership has, over two decades of trade with the U.S., enthusiastically embraced economic reform, while Cuba's has for the most part fiercely resisted it even while welcoming European, Latin American and Canadian investors. But even China's leaders themselves might take issue with Lott's exclusion of Beijing from the communist fold - after all, China remains a one-party state and the party that monopolizes power is unrepentantly communist. And everyone from human rights organizations to the State Department concurs that...
...hopeful about the future, it is because I see the increasingly vocal demand for democracy in the world and the growing understanding of the need for social justice. Democracy is recovering some of its lost ground in Asia, Latin America and even Africa. Gender equity and basic education are beginning to receive more attention in India, Bangladesh and elsewhere. I am not unconditionally hopeful, but certainly conditionally so. We must, however, take a sufficiently broad view of poverty to make sure the poor have reason for hope...
...American quarter, and six times as valuable. It's got a gilt-colored exterior and a serene-looking Queen Elizabeth II on the face. It's a thick coin, about three stacked quarters high, and the British Royal Mint has dressed up the edge with fancy-looking Latin inscriptions ("Spend me wisely," they seem to say). The pound feels like real money. It feels great...