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...autocracies such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan and now Nigeria more money to crush or buy off internal dissent. And it makes it easier for them to win friends and influence people around the world. A decade ago, authoritarian governments were largely on the defensive. Today Venezuela's Hugo Ch??vez is cloning himself in Bolivia and Ecuador. And Iran is on the verge of dominating the Middle East...
...first noticed reggaeton’s infectious “BOOM-ch-boom-ch?? beat in the summer of 2005, while walking through New York City during the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Crossing through the huge crowds with my roommate, I wondered why all the tricked-out trucks and lowriders were blasting the exact same song from their subwoofers. It wasn’t until I listened past the thumping bass and clockwork rhythm that I realized that I was hearing a whole genre of music; almost all reggaeton songs feature an identical drum rhythm, called...
...Notably, two characters appeared intermittently in giant, papier-mâch?? eyeball costumes. The eyeballs here constituted a larger-than-life visual anomaly in a play where everything else seems comfortably life-sized...
Caldern's act is going over well in Washington too. After 100 days on the job, he is emerging as President George W. Bush's anti-Ch??vez--a conservative counterweight to a resurgent Latin American left led by Venezuela's gringo-bashing President Hugo Ch??vez. Leftists won seven of 11 Latin presidential elections last year, and Caldern beat his left-wing opponent, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, by only half a percentage point. Losing Mexico, the U.S.'s third largest trading partner, would have sunk America's foundering influence in the region. Instead, when Bush...
...brings out menus from some of these dinners, filled with names that strike sharp pangs of envy into other oenophiles’ hearts: mature Ch??teau Montrose, Ch??teau Mouton Rothschild (each bottle now worth more than $1,000), and Ch??teau d’Yquem (which Thomas Jefferson liked so much that he bought 250 bottles for himself, plus a few more for George Washington). And these were only a part of a single dinner. Membership is limited to 14 because there are exactly 14 tasting portions in an ordinary bottle of wine...