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...used to eat chocolate-covered espresso beans until our primary care physicians cut us off,” recounted Sacerdote, who earned his doctorate from Harvard and has co-written several papers with Glaeser. “He always had a great supply of Dominican cigars, and you can’t sleep for a day after having one of those. For many of his graduate students, including me, he’s the whole reason we stayed in economics and saw it as a worthwhile, fun and useful pursuit,” Sacerdote wrote...
...starters, the U.S. will have to take up the slack left by departing allies. When Spain's new Socialist Prime Minister held firm on his campaign promise to withdraw his 1,300 troops, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, which rely on the Spanish for command and control, decided to bug out as well. Thailand threatened to withdraw its aid workers if attacked, and even faithful Australia is down to 850 of the 2,000 troops it originally shipped over last year. Secretary of State Colin Powell called leaders of roughly half the 34 coalition countries to try to prevent further...
Telephone reception in remote Haitian villages is apparently pretty weak, so I had to wait four days for a peasant to switch a broken cord on Farmer's Internet-based phone. When we finally talked--after Farmer had driven four hours each way for a meeting with a Dominican health commissioner--I informed him that he wasn't top-100 important. He tried to take the news in stride, though he was clearly bummed out. "I was reading PEOPLE magazine recently, and a pop star--her first name is Jessica, but her last name escapes me, a blond--was saying...
...murky, the subject of probing hearings this week by the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Restoring a semblance of security in Iraq is the immediate challenge facing the U.S. and its coalition, which has shrunk over the past week as Spain was joined by Honduras and the Dominican Republic in announcing its troops would be leaving. It's not yet over, but April has been the bloodiest month of the war, with some 93 coalition troops and upward of 1,000 Iraqis killed in clashes in the Sunni Triangle and the Shiite neighborhoods of the capital and some...
...Jennifer Lopez, who launched her JLo fashion empire in 2001, has a diverse clientele, as do some of the other brands. Says Feldenkreis: "Our brands have crossover appeal." Republica Trading Co., a small men's apparel brand founded by Rafael Jimenez, started out targeting a very specific Latin niche--Dominican ex-pats living in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood--but has grown to envelop a much wider audience. Republica's shirts, jackets, pants and sweaters, which often feature Latin iconography and phrases, are carried by Bloomingdale's and Up Against the Wall. Says the Dominican-American Jimenez: "Republica...