Morales, Neil Armstrong, Aha oe feii?

NYTimes
"Why do I like Che?" Evo Morales, MAS's leader and presidential candidate, said in response to my question, looking as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Morales is the first full-blooded Aymara, Bolivia's dominant ethnic group, to make a serious run for the presidency
..normally serves as the headquarters of the cocaleros, the coca-leaf growers from the country's remote, lush Chapare region. Morales started in politics as the leader of these cocaleros, and he has pledged that if he wins the presidential election scheduled for Dec. 18, one of his first acts will be to eliminate all penalties for the cultivation of coca..
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For Jeffrey Sachs..former economic adviser to the Bolivian government, the problem was less the international lending institutions' recommendations than the lack of follow-up on the part of Washington. Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada, the first of the two presidents ousted in Bolivia's recent wave of protests, has said that when he went to see President Bush at the White House in 2002, the president talked of little except Afghanistan. As Sachs put it later in an op-ed piece in The Financial Times, the Bush administration "proved to be incapable of even the simplest responses to a profound crisis engulfing the region." In an e-mail message to me, he said he had "never seen such incompetence" as the Bush administration's approach to Latin America, which he characterized as comprising "neglect, insensitivity, disregard, tone-deafness." Sachs cited one damning example in Bolivia: as his government teetered on the verge of collapse in 2003, Sánchez de Losada asked the U.S. government for $50 million in emergency aid. Washington made $10 million available. As Sachs put it bitterly, the decision in effect invited MAS and the social activist movements - peasants, coca growers, laborers and the unemployed - "to finish off the job of bringing down the government."

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20/11/2005 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two improvised bombs killed five U.S. army soldiers patrolling near the Iraqi town of Baiji on Saturday, and wounded another five ... Baiji is 180 km north of Baghdad.

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For some time I've been under the illusion that William Holden was still alive. Actually kicked the bucket early 80s.
He famously played moon-man Neil Armstrong in James Michener's "The Bridges at Toko-Ri"...Grumman F9F-2 Panther, although clearly outperformed by the Soviet MiG-15, brought down five
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Any LGD fan would love this story: Nessim D. Gaon, owed a bunch of oil by the CCCP, briefly seized
Paul Gauguin. Aha oe feii? (Are You Jealous?) 1892. on exhibition from The Pushkin Museum Aha oe feii? Larger
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