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...traffic jams and past lumbering cows, a local doctor briefed them on the slum's 9,000 residents and five health-care workers. Melinda listened intently with her eyebrows raised, as she almost always does, while Bill interrupted to ask the kinds of questions you would expect from a capitalist billionaire. "Who owns the land?" (The doctor wasn't sure, but probably the government.) "How much do the health-care workers earn?" (Ten dollars a month.) "Is that a full-time...
...Life in Progress, Black traces a career in mid-trajectory, dishing out vituperation by the spoonful. An iconoclast and conservative ideologue seemingly at birth, Black had a privileged Toronto upbringing-son of a capitalist who headed a profitable brewery-that was 'honorable and unexceptionable, like so much of Canada' ... In the late '70s, Black found his true calling as a Toronto financier. He stitched his family holdings into a conglomerate with interests in mining, retailing and oil as well as journalism. He revels in the access he enjoyed to Canada's 'elites,' even as he gives some of his dinner...
...would ease the burden of cleaning up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster next door in Ukraine, which contaminated almost 23% of Belarus and still costs the government nearly 25% of its meager $3 billion budget. The Batska promised to prevent Russian-style plunder of the new nation by capitalist oligarchs. But voters never imagined he would take them back to the Stalinist past. Once in office, he rolled back privatization, stifled economic reforms, renationalized most banks, stepped up centralized controls and preserved collective farms. Minsk today looks like the set for a 1950s Soviet movie. Its broad boulevards, designed...
...fatter have left the Mouse House. In their wake they leave a filthy trail of Lays potato chip bags, Diet Coke cans, and enough Oscar gold to fund another CIA-backed military coup in Guatemala.Going into the details (a long, absurd capitalist saga) of the Weinstein brothers’ departure from Disney is useless at this point. Essentially, the nightmare couldn’t have lasted much longer. Money-grubbing ex-nerd testosterone receptacles like Michael Eisner were fated to have a rocky relationship with Bob & Harvey Weinstein. Harvey yelled at or sat on people who irritated him too much...
...bargain and you should know that by now.” The fact that he seems impressed by the President’s intransigence, while simultaneously being frustrated by the man’s sentiment seems to best represent the two sides of RZA himself—his business, capitalist side and his more philosophical, humanist side. Within his own politics RZA expresses a more libertarian streak, particularly in regard to marijuana, which he definitely thinks should be legalized. “Give a street peddler a peddler’s license and make it so you can only smoke...