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Slate provides some good, concise analysis of what President Lucio Gutierrez’s rise to power means for Ecuador.

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November 27th, 2002 at 12:21 pm

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The Boston Globe is running an interesting profile of Ha Jin, author of the novel “Waiting,” which won the National Book Award in 1999. When I was in college, I took several poetry classes with Jin; he’s extremely smart and is a genuinely nice man.

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November 27th, 2002 at 11:45 am

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