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...towers over my desk; for a national college magazine recommending that I shower with a friend to save water; for making me, a proud Massachusetts moderate (read: deep-blue liberal) feel like a reactionary; for my roommates asking me to “let it mellow.”Yes, let it mellow. One night this fall, they came into my room with a question. “Would it be okay if we let it mellow?” one asked. Let it mellow? “Yeah, you know, not flush the toilet after you pee. It?...
...half of Venezuela's 16 million registered voters showed up at the polls on Sunday. Low turnout was supposed to have hurt the opposition's "no" vote; but in the end it was Chavez, thought to have a reliable populist political machine at his disposal to get out the "yes" vote, who couldn't rouse his base among Venezuela's majority poor. Even that cohort, despite having benefited from Chavez's vast socialist project, backed away from his bid to solidify "21st-century socialism," which also would have put the autonomous Central Bank under his control and exerted deeper federal...
...even if he stopped short of the official apology some in Algeria had demanded, in his opening remarks in Algiers Monday Sarkozy did come more than halfway, admitting "yes, terrible crimes were committed throughout the war of independence that claimed innumerable victims on both sides", and that it was to honor all those victims that he'd made the trips. "It's this work of remembering that I've come to offer the Algerian people," he said...
...leaving a sparse crowd with long faces milling about in a sea of empty rum and beer bottles. A large inflatable bust of Chavez with his arms outstretched lay face-down and half-deflated on an empty stage. A man who looked drunk held up several soggy and torn "Yes" posters in front of a giant projection screen showing the President conceding defeat...
...vote took place, many in the Caracas slum of Petare said they opted for "Yes." But there were clearly naysayers. "The majority here will vote no," 51-year-old Maria Negrin said after voting in Petare on Sunday morning. "I don't agree with giving all the power to the President." Others said they wanted to vote against Chavez's proposal, but felt obligated to vote yes because they benefited from government social programs...