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...dancers come from all across the Spanish-speaking world: from Argentina, Venezuela, Spain, and, above all, from Cuba, in a contingent that ranges from the veteran Carlos Acosta of the Royal Ballet down to newcomer Sarabia (who is considering a stack of offers while staying in Pompano Beach, Fla., with a former teacher, also a defector). Three other standouts...
...MING SHAW Patagonia, Argentina February...
...Global institutions, especially the IMF, are also feeling the direct impact of their unpopularity: in the past few weeks, both Argentina and Brazil have announced that they are paying back their entire outstanding debt to the IMF?a combined total of $25 billion?in order to wriggle free of its policy conditions. Argentine President Nestor Kirchner accuses the IMF of causing many of his nation's economic woes. In the Ivory Coast, it's the U.N. that is the focus of government wrath. Following a recommendation last week by a U.N.-backed international working group that the Ivorian parliament?which...
...with high growth come high risks, including dramatic booms and busts, political instability and worse. Michael Smith, Hong Kong-- based CEO of HSBC in Asia, found that out one day in 1999 in Buenos Aires, where he was managing the Argentina operation. He had made some enemies while stamping out suspected fraud. As he drove from his office, armed men in two cars ambushed him and riddled his car with bullets. Smith got shot in the thigh but managed to smash his blood-splattered sedan through his assailants' vehicles and outlast them in a long chase. "It was real James...
...feudal monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. That's not the sort of popularity that is likely to give Jacques Chirac problems anytime soon. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Countries with steady or declining trust in companies '04 -- '05 net change* Argentina 1 S. Korea -4** Mexico -5 China -6 Indonesia -6 India -7 Britain -7 Brazil -9 Germany -11 Turkey -13 Canada -18 U.S. -19 Spain...