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...Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden, a tale of state-sponsored, U.S.-backed torture and terror in Latin America. Born outside the United States but living now in North Carolina (the state where I was born), Dorfman confronts the accidental fact that a democratically elected government in Chile was toppled on September 11, 1973, a Tuesday, like September 11, 2001. In Dorfmans view, the recent attack against the United States, in which thousands have disappeared, recalls an attack supported by the United States against Chile, in which thousands also disappeared. This latter attack is hardly as infamous...
...mining company turned real estate mogul? "Mining is not welcome in the U.S.," says John Gross, publisher of the Copper Journal. "That's a fact of life." Environmental rules and the high cost of operating in the U.S. have pushed miners to less developed countries such as Chile, the world's largest copper producer. Add to the mix that mines tend to be remote, and the uniqueness of Kennecott's marriage with South Jordan emerges. The Western states have seen enormous population growth in the past decade. A net total of 212,000 people settled in Utah (pop. 2.23 million...
...Mexico City, the man at the top of the pyramid traditionally lets the world come to him. Fox, 59, with his farmer's dislike of being cooped up and his salesman's instinct for staying mobile, exercises power on the move. If it's Tuesday, this must be Santiago, Chile; or Detroit; or the state of Chiapas; or downtown Mexico City. Constantly in the public eye, the former president of Coca-Cola Mexico has made himself Mexico's motivational speaker in chief...
...more friendly than Venus, but Martina [Hingis] is not talking to either of them," said Davenport in May, before Hingis and the Williamses reached a detente. "Anna and Martina were both going for the same market, and that didn't work. They got in a huge fight in Chile. They were throwing flowers at each other and screaming at each other. They were best friends and doubles partners," Davenport said as she sat with her boyfriend and her Rottweiler on the deck of her huge Laguna Beach, Calif., house overlooking the Pacific...
...Wednesday, while markets in Chile, France, India, Italy, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland take the day off, Wall Street soldiers on and hears about - drumroll, please - June business inventories, July industrial production, and July capacity utilization...