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We’ve all known for years Republicans are capitalist bourgeois pigs, but this week I finally stumbled upon verifiable proof in a link on the Republican National Committee homepage. The linked site—so nuanced in its absurdity—proves undoubtedly the Republican Party is but a crass, commercialistic machine: The George W. Bush Online Store (www.georgewbushstore.com...
...policy just to court popular approval, but he concedes that "it would be wrong to pretend that any politician could survive with-out resorting to minor populist measures at times." How would he determine when such a measure was in order? That, says this otherwise staunch proponent of capitalist individualism, would be a matter for cabinet-level collective decision making. Q&A: Bulgarians need to change - to stop expecting the government to take care of them. TIME: What is your agenda? How should Bulgaria's finances look at the end of your term? Veltchev: There are harder objectives and softer...
...there's one aspect of Yang's misfortune that is not surprising at all: a Mainland private company has been embroiled in allegations of monkey business once again. Entrepreneurs like Yang?bold, flamboyant and aggressive?are heralded as the face of China's capitalist future, and fledgling private companies are viewed hopefully as a wellspring of growth and an engine of job creation to replace the country's decrepit state-owned enterprises. But they are also the product of a rapidly changing economy in which state control left over from the days of hard-line communism mingles with freewheeling capitalism...
...rage on, billions of euros are at stake, and anxious mobile-phone operators are coveting data services, a crucial new source of revenue as voice revenues decline. "These are steps in the right direction toward mobile devices becoming a good window onto the Web," says Ross Bott, a venture capitalist at Silicon Valley-based Redpoint Ventures. Of course, we've heard that song before. The fact is that about 70% of cell phones sold worldwide in 2002 are capable of surfing the Net through wireless application protocol (WAP) browsers. But almost no one does, because WAP proved...
...required to call until next August. The impoverished masses who march for him, and who had little if no voice in pre-Chavez Venezuela, are the key to his resilience, just as Brazil's exasperated poor, fed up with the unfulfilled promises of a decade of capitalist reforms in Latin America, are likely to vote Workers Party candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva into the presidency next week. "The oligarchs in this country just want to demonize Chavez because he's giving our class the chance to participate in the economic and political life of Venezuela for once," said Yosmari...