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...prosperity--to go around? Ugly Betty's overarching story is metaphorically about the same battle. Betty is an outsider at Mode magazine not just because she dresses badly but also because of things that have to do directly with her ethnicity. She grosses out her skinny, preening, (mostly) Anglo co-workers by bringing empanadas for lunch. Her features are broad and unmistakably Mesoamerican. (Ferrera is strikingly pretty in real life.) On her first day at work, she wears a hideous poncho with GUADALAJARA emblazoned...
...afford them will fare better, perpetuating the inequities that have kept the underserved urban ghettoes on the boil for years. And the idea of public teachers dipping into the private sector for a little extra cash is bound to strike more than a few French people as downright Anglo-Saxon - or so her supporters hope...
...over yet. Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus agreed last month to an $8 billion takeover bid by Tata Steel. The deal is the largest-ever Indian acquisition of a foreign firm, and it will catapult Tata from the world's 56th largest steel producer to the fifth. "All credit goes to Ratan Tata," says Sanjay Bhandarkar, managing director of the N.M. Rothschild private bank in India. "He clearly has a vision and knows what he's doing...
...probable conservative presidential candidate, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, called her idea "an attack on the Republic." In fact, as Royal's staff noted in a quickly disseminated clarification, such popular juries are nothing new; Royal first voiced the idea back in 2002, and well before that it emerged from "Anglo-Saxon theories of empowerment." For years, such selective citizens' committees have been used in Berlin to steer municipal policies where citizens thought they ought to go, and in Scandinavia to get a handle on controversial issues like genetically modified foods...
...urged his countrymen to dream big. India, he said, should "be bold. It must look at the future ... It must look big, and look out." Last week he showed just what he meant: Tata Steel, part of his sprawling $22 billion empire, made an $8 billion bid for the Anglo-Dutch steel manufacturer Corus. The deal, accepted by Corus' board last Friday, creates the world's fifth-largest steel company and is the largest Indian takeover of a foreign company ever...