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...turned with the old VW bus that served as a combi for several Indian villages in the mountains of Chiapas high above the town of San Cristobal de las Casas. The rough wool of the traditional poncho worn by the old Tzetzil-speaking man beside me scratched my arm as he helped his wife out of the bus with their now-empty egg crates. The driver leaned around to tell me that the next stop was Oventic, the Zapatista camp to which I had been invited to meet the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) Commission...
...Sallie Forth Citigroup said it will elevate 39-year-old Sallie Krawcheck to the role of CFO in November, making her Wall Street's most powerful woman. Krawcheck will relinquish her position as head of Smith Barney, Citigroup's brokerage arm...
...hellfire, the Rev. Jerry Falwell has established a new law school which he promises “will be as far to the right as Harvard is to the left.” Huh, we thought Princeton already had that covered. Falwell’s law school, an arm of his esteemed Liberty University, will educate its students in a “principled Christian approach to the practice of law”—as opposed to the God-hating, ass-ramming, Hebrew approach over at Harvard Law. Falwell’s 61 pupils have already completed student...
...helmet jarred Frey’s left hand, sending a shock of pain through his fingers. Diagnosis: a spiral fracture in his second metacarpal. Doctor’s verdict: Frey was cleared to play—with a protective cast the size of a watermelon on his arm...
...modern sermon in an old setting: a PowerPoint presentation was controlled by youth leaders at laptops, and fading murals of constellations and pirates colored the concrete walls. In the back row, the off-duty guitarist scooted his chair closer to a girl and subtly slid his arm around...