There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.