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...home, he has become the developing world's new spokesman, a pragmatic populist who matches his anti-Yankee bluster with economic sobriety. His successes with pension and tax reforms have made Wall Street want to samba. Lula is often cited as the first leader to apply the social activism cum fiscal realism of Europe's "third way" to places where it is more needed. Brazil, for example, has one of the world's most inequitable distributions of wealth. His message: only economic growth can fund antipoverty crusades like his Zero Hunger program. And only by playing hardball within the globalized...
...from Richard Clarke that he was caught unawares about September 11 and against charges that he?d driven the country into an Iraqi sandtrap. Bush?s goal was to correct that impression, to look tough and unwavering. (His critics might say that?s the problem.) He ended his speech-cum-press conference with a none too subtle jab at John Kerry, noting ?when I say something, I mean...
Harris graduated magna cum laude in economics from Harvard in 1984 and was recently named to Fortune magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America.” She has also recorded a bestselling CD on Amazon.com titled “Carla’s First Christmas...
It’s a unifying college experience: nonchalantly grabbing a bottle, hoping for the best, flashing a fake. But the Saturday evening de rigueur for many Harvard undergraduates has landed one of students’ favorite convenience store-cum-liquor spots in hot water...
...Plenty of commentators have criticized Gibson's defense-cum-promotion of The Passion as meso-Messianic. When he declines to denounce his father Hunter, an extreme religious and political right-winger who has in articles and interviews come close to denying the Nazi holocaust, Mad Mel is supposedly seeing himself as the suffering Jesus and his dad as God the Father-He who demands the ultimate sacrifice, He who must be obeyed. Mel has also sounded addled, even paranoid, when he said that making this movie was putting his career on the line. But, as the saying goes, just because...