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...coffee. But the depressed markets for those goods mean farmers earn sometimes as little as one-tenth of what they would with coca, which produces three to four harvests a year. Of course, coca farming is not--as Morales and the growers would have it--an entirely innocuous affair. Even though the cocaleros don't turn coca leaves into cocaine--that's done by the drug cartels--they know that the bulk of the crop goes not toward its traditional uses as an anesthetic and a salubrious chew but into making the illegal drug. In a recent speech on Morales...
...Sioux going to take a dump") or a juice-blend of three languages in five words, as in one inebriated axiom for living: "Camaraderie .. honest Arbeit* .. profane V?geln.** Nothing beats it!" (This is translated in a footnote, or, as Russ insists, an "editor's titnote": "* Work. ** Fucking.") His Berlin affair with German hottie Renate H?tte (later known, in Russ's "Mudhoney," as Rena Horton) is recalled as an evening of "succulent schlemmers and Gatling-gun Gesundheits!" Limning an energetic tryst with one Mrs. Janet Buxton, he apostrophizes: "Oh, what hath headboards and Hemingway wrought!" (I give up: what hath pine...
...Enron hide more than $8.5 billion in debt. Canal Plus (Or Minus) In his first move to reduce Vivendi's ?19 billion debt, new CEO Jean-René Fourtou will separate Canal Plus into a new company and sell the rest of its pay-TV unit. INDICATORS A Family Affair Think your family reunions are stressful? John Rigas, founder of Adelphia Communications, was arrested in New York City with his two sons and two other former executives for allegedly committing hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud at the bankrupt cable company. The Doll Takes A Fall Happily, most...
...Government Lecturer in Public Policy Alex S. Jones, who worked with Abernathy at The New York Times and regards himself as a good friend of hers, said that Abernathy’s resignation may have been part of HBSP’s reaction to Wetlaufer’s affair...
Before the public learned of Wetlaufer’s affair with GE CEO Jack Welch, who was the subject of a profile piece Wetlaufer was writing, Abernathy had called for Wetlaufer to be placed on a leave of absence during HBR’s investigations of the relationship...