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Mexico has never been exactly gentle with illegal migrants. Marco Herazo Diaz, 26, a Honduran farmer, is waiting at Tapachula's Catholic-run shelter, the House of the Migrant, to see if his sister in Compton, Calif., can send him money; he gave his last $50 to a man who said he was an immigration agent. Southern Mexico is full of bandits, some of them Central Americans themselves. "The migrant's route is a cemetery without crosses," says Father Flor Maria Rigoni, who runs the shelter...
...proud of the working relationship he had forged with his American counterparts; he told TIME he had "profound respect" for the U.S. regulators and described his own agency as a "junior institution." Before Christmas, when GE's competitors called on the case officer assigned to the merger, Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz, to persuade him to start a lengthy "phase two" investigation of the deal, Gonzalez-Diaz accused them of whining...
That wasn't good. For the merging companies and their opponents, Gonzalez-Diaz was the man to see. The Spaniard, 39, a native of the Canary Islands, is known as a brilliant mathematician and lawyer, hardworking and intensely ambitious. One source (on the losing side of this case) also calls him "deeply cynical about the motivation of business and a nightmare to deal with." GE's opponents knew they would never convince Monti without first winning over Gonzalez-Diaz. The principals came to a rough division of labor: Rolls-Royce stressed the dangers of allowing GE to "bundle" engines...
...audience knows what to expect from a teen movie: Cameron Diaz using man-made hair gel, Tom Green molesting an elephant and lots of jokes about testicles. No surprise that the audience, more and more, is keeping its distance from youth-oriented flicks unless they are of the action-adventure variety, with plenty of noise to drown out the script. Perhaps that is part of the reason Hollywood is trying to improve on the genre with Crazy/Beautiful--a romantic drama starring Kirsten Dunst as a rich, white high school senior rebelling against her limousine-liberal father and falling in love with...
...Diaz' election effectively sunk the project. His first action as mayor was to block ground clearance on the land Mondavi had leased for its vineyard. But beneath the rhetoric, powerful local interests were in play. Opposition to the project was led by Aimé Guibert, the owner of Daumas Gassac whose plans to sell his own vineyard to Mondavi had fallen through. Mayor Diaz won over a majority of Aniane's voters with arguments worthy of Astérix: "Do we French growers, with our know-how and traditions, really need Mondavi to help us with our wine-making technique...