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...biggest shareholder as well as chairman of Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), Mexico's no-longer-monopoly telephone company, Slim is planning to challenge American giants like AT&T and MCI on their home turf in 1997. The stakes: a bigger share in the $2.5 billion U.S.-Mexico long-distance market. "Our focus is toward Hispanic users in the U.S.," he says. The notion of taking on mammoth American firms is in keeping with the ambitions of multibillionaire Slim, widely assumed to be Mexico's richest man. His Grupo Carso holding company was already worth $1.2 billion in sales...
Slim's expansiveness inspires cynicism in his many Mexican critics. His Telmex purchase was condemned by many nationalists as evidence of his cronyism with then President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; one political party filed suit against Slim, saying he paid an artificially low price for his share, a charge he firmly denies...
...beginning, was not Deng Xiaoping. The eldest son of the county sheriff was given a two-character name that meant "first saint," perhaps a reference to his father's Buddhist piety. Only later, in France, did Deng Xiansheng become Deng Xiaoping, the two new syllables a prescient nom de guerre, literally meaning "little peace," an augury of both tumult and relief. In 1920, at the age of 16, Deng left his rural home deep inland in Sichuan for the port of Shanghai. There he learned basic French and won a scholarship for a work-study program in France. "We felt...
...woven of two strands, one of them boldly colored, the other rather gray and recessive. Besides Scissorhands, the first skein includes Ed Wood, Depp's serenely obsessive portrait of the grade-Z moviemaker and cross-dresser with a special affection for angora sweaters; Don Juan De Marco, where he plays a schizophrenic who escapes from dismal reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity...
CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain: Basta, already. Matadors are threatening to shed their traje de luces, turn in their capes and leave the bulls alone if the Spanish government doesn't lighten regulations in the ring. The bullfighters are threatening a walkout over current regulations that say a breeder faces fines of up to $65,000 if examinations after the fight show that they have shaved their bull's horns. Shaved horns skew a bull's ability to estimate distances and makes them more vulnerable to the sword. But union leaders say such scrutiny is unwarranted and are urging that...