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Costa Rica

Scare trade

by Kevin Casas Zamora, Fernando Sánchez,

Weekly Review

by Claire Gutierrez,

An American cattleman. An appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled that the writ of habeas corpus does not apply to prisoners in the American concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay,Cuba.Washington PostAmericans…

Weekly Review

by Theodore Ross,

George Bush delivered his State of the Union address.CNNHe said the country was “confident and strong,”CNNthen announced he would reduce or eliminate 150 government programs.The New York TimesHe called Social…

The surf doctor’s Rx

by Harper’s Staff,

Suture self

Bipartisan arm-twisting in Central America

by Oscar Arias Sanchez,

Or you can turn the page

by Daniel Janzen,

Slumberers of the surge

by William Beebe,

The smallest of American republics

by William Eleroy Curtis,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

Holidays in Costa Rica. III.–San JosÃ© to Cartago

by Thomas Francis Meagher,

Holidays in Costa Rica. II.–San JosÃ©

by Thomas Francis Meagher,

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