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Thanks to a fun "friendly test-takers" list, you not only get to view your own results, but you can learn where friends (and their friends) fall. The results are unsettlingly accurate. Among my friends, the I-banking wizards were labeled as Businessmen, the drama queens as Performers and the loudmouths as Politicians. In some cases, the similarities were even more striking. My close friend, the Mastermind, fits the profile not only as a "schemer" and "plotter," but even her forehead bears a strange resemblance to the rather large cranium possessed by the Mastermind on the Web site...
...face of an almost entirely middle-class insurrection. But for most, the tales of Estrada's gambling kickbacks and underworld connections that emerged during his impeachment had shattered his election promise to end corruption, and they simply stood passively by as the generals and bishops, politicians, businessmen and students overthrew...
...passport in the central Bakara market, though few countries will recognize it. A few stalls away, moneychanger Bashir Moalim Mohamed opens a huge safe packed with $10,000 worth of Somalia shillings. "I am the central bank," he says, pulling out stacks of new notes recently imported by local businessmen from a printing company in Canada. What about protection? Mohamed plucks a rusty M-16 assault rifle from the open safe. "This is my protection. Without this you're a dead...
...government represented a lot of vested interests in Chiapas who didn't want to see their business interests jeopardized by big changes in the state's political situation. Many of these local PRI leaders and businessmen even created their own paramilitary groups. But Fox realizes that the indigenous people of Chiapas have legitimate complaints. They've always been treated like a colonized people by successive Mexican governments, and Fox wants to change that...
Schlesinger can be self-important (the dinners on Martha's Vineyard with movie stars, the lunches at Manhattan's Mortimer's restaurant with the society crowd). He indulges the old New Deal intellectual's habit of bashing business and businessmen in an almost recreational way. (At one point he blithely equates capitalism with sexism and racism.) But even his smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a co-worker...