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...drug interdiction, maybe Plan Colombia's billions are better spent on counter-insurgency after all, since the voracious U.S. and European appetite for snorting coke - widely regarded as the real cause of the drug crisis - shows little if any sign of abating. As Michael Reid notes in his insightful new book on Latin America, Forgotten Continent, "Plan Colombia [has] proved to be far more effective as a counter-insurgency plan than as an anti-drug plan, though it [has] been sold to the American public as the latter." The U.S. had put a $5 million bounty on Reye's head...
...important or more riveting than the study of politics! We believe that we have a complement of stellar teachers, second to none. Students agree—enrollments in our courses are high and growing. As your editorial points out, however, fewer students are electing Government as a concentration, a sign that we are not serving our most committed constituency as well as we should. That is a painful realization...
...says. “It both enables the incorporation, but as it incorporates it digests and dissolves. So it’s like kind of a black hole that sucks everything in and crushes it into nothingness. One must question if one’s acceptance is really the sign of one’s disappearance.”The noticeable absence of many African-based artists and scholars due to financial difficulties is just one illustration of the challenges still remaining. “There are all kinds of extra difficulties that I think people based in Africa have...
...will “hold your hand” and we have consented to this idea. Though regarded as some of the best students in the world, even the most independent and self-confident among us need encouragement and support when faced with new challenges. To call this a sign of weakness is not only a gross injustice; in fact, the premium we place on self-reliance becomes destructive when it forces us to hide our problems for fear of showing weakness...
...central government in Baghdad - as embodied by the Prime Minister and the national parliament - the right to remove a provincial governor from office. That did not sit well with one of the most important regional power blocs in Iraq and its representative on the Presidential Coucil, which must sign off on all prospective laws, cast a veto, declaring the bill unconstitutional and sending it back to parliament for adjustment...