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...TIME: Do you feel betrayed by Zedillo? SALINAS: Zedillo did not betray me personally, he betrayed the platform that took him to the presidency. It all started with the peso devaluation in Dec 1994 when Zedillo's government provided inside information to a small group of Mexican businessmen that the devaluation was coming. And in a matter of hours, Mexico lost $6 billion -- half its total foreign exchange reserves...
...They wouldn't be at their positions at Harvard if they didn't have something to offer," Armstrong says. "Your businessmen are very board-gauged people...
...trying to put pressure on the Japanese government to step up efforts to find his 21-year-old daughter. This is a particularly embarrassing case because it involves one of the shadier sides of Tokyo life - the booming business in trafficking attractive Western women to Japanese businessmen willing to pay top dollar for the chance to sit next to and fondle blondes...
...waging a struggle that is driven by personality and powerful emotions. He promises an educational revolution for Mexico's long-impoverished campesinos, better health care for the country's poor and a stable economy for its businessmen. Mostly, though, he promises change. As he streaks across the country in a Learjet, barnstorming at three or four rallies a day, he calls on his audiences for a "peaceful insurgency." Says Fox: "President Kennedy called on all Americans to work in putting a man on the moon. That was quite a challenge. But getting the P.R.I. out of Los Pinos [the Mexican...
Feng shui has not only arrived; it has burrowed deep into American society. A decade ago, its followers were mostly Asian Americans, New Age junkies and flaky Hollywood or fashion types. Now bureaucrats and bottom-line-driven businessmen are embracing it. Ma Wong's clients include 65 real estate developers as well as Universal Studios and Coty Beauty, the fragrance concern. Real estate tycoon Donald Trump uses feng shui, as does the brokerage house Merrill Lynch...