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Look at the old president and the new; look at their white skin. Look at the 15 members of the new cabinet. They are no different. Look at the protestors: the miners, the coca growers, the poor and hungry. See their faces: dark and wrinkled. They have different brows, different cheeks. They are the color of the earth in Bolivia...
...nchez's apparent indifference to the country's misery. Bolivia (pop. 8.8 million) is South America's poorest country, and job losses resulting from industrial privatization have forced an estimated two-thirds of its work force into the underground economy. Indigenous farmers have seen their fields of coca - Bolivia's most lucrative crop, used to make cocaine and herbal medicines - eradicated as part of the U.S. drug war. Alternative crops like coffee usually earn only a tenth of coca's price in today's depressed global markets. These grievances helped catapult Evo Morales, an Andean Indian who represents coca farmers...
...despite the glory of Nike-sponsored athletic teams and school cafeterias Brought to You by the Coca-Cola Corporation, I am not convinced that the benefits of growing up in these Branded United States of America outweigh the unique experience of a childhood really spent in places like Kingman, Arizona or Waco, Texas—my father’s childhood hometowns...
...Hamlin, general manager of Dell's U.S. consumer business. "We're not first," he says. "We just do it better. We're not embarrassed to admit it. We've come out of nowhere to be the No. 3 consumer brand in the U.S. in less than five years, while Coca-Cola has been doing it for 100 years." Of course, adds Hamlin: "We're not in this to be No. 3. No. 1 is the only target around here...
...live, in case you hadn’t heard, in a globalized world. Standardization and homogenization are the rule. Same McDonald’s the world over, with regional flavorings. Same Coca-Cola, same World Trade Organization. In this “global community,” Britain and America are siblings, prevented from squabbling too much by a little ocean and a few hundred years of history. In an age of monopolistic record companies and internet file-sharing, you could be forgiven for expecting everyone to listen to the same music—whatever the corporate gods...