Don t you think that it is time to lead Lebanese women towards a much anticipated revolution?

To be sure, Vladimir Putin s Russia is nationalistic, awkward, and disposed to dangerous trouble making.

There was, as one banker charmingly conceded, a bit of asymmetry between what bankers were being paid and what their banks had lost.

Most people acquire survival skills if not more sophisticated forms of savoir faire informally, as a quick glance at the immigration experience in the United States demonstrates.

Inserting itself effectively into this context required great cultural sensitivity on the part of MINUGUA, which made use of national indigenous staff and translators able to explain the peace accords and the mandate of the Mission and to take complaints in indigenous languages.