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...Then came the BMWs and Mercedes, the calm of post-nightclubbling Sunday mornings shattered by infant screams, and before I knew it, I was navigating my way past Bugaboo baby carriages to get a seat at one of my favorite haunts near Helmholtzplatz. It's called Wohnzimmer (Living Room), and the new moms, toddlers and baby carriages that now predominate make it looks more like the Nursery...
...into the upscale bistros and cafés of San Pedro. Then the rumors began circulating on cell phones and BlackBerrys: gunfights had broken out again in local restaurants and nightclubs. Almost immediately the cafés emptied, and the streets were clogged with frantic regiomontanos racing in their Lexuses and BMWs to save their kids from the cross fire...
...might to suppress it, class at Harvard is like a cold sore: harmless but hard to miss. Globetrotting friends glibly recount their ski vacations at Vail or winter breaks in Fiji; BMWs line the parking lot between Lowell and the Fly; whole blocking groups oddly come from the same zip code...
...took pains to disguise their net worth; they rode motorbikes to work and turned assets into gold bars that were hidden in their modest homes. "Society was not in favor of rich people," says Pham Chi Lan, an economist in Hanoi. "They did not dare expose their wealth." Today, BMWs and Mercedes are frequently seen on the streets of Hanoi, and there's a construction boom of luxury villas. The annual publication of a list of the country's richest people seems like just another capitalist milestone for a modernizing economy. After all, "in the world of business, people need...
...recent TIME interview, Chavez insisted, "I no longer think a third way is possible. Only socialism." Yet the fruits of materialism are alive and well in Venezuela: thanks to booming demand fueled by high oil prices, sales of BMWs jumped some 30% there last year. And Chavez will need foreign investors when oil prices drop far enough to make socialist dreams like state-run phone companies not viable...