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...been arrested by the brutal right-wing dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973 to 1990. (An autopsy revealed that Jara was tormented in a game of Russian roulette and then executed by machine-gun fire.) This week, a Chilean judge ruled that former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, a Pinochet opponent who died in 1982, had actually been fatally poisoned by Pinochet agents...
...press charges. But most Germans are relieved that the pensioner has finally been called to account for the crimes he committed while he was a young soldier. The ruling has symbolic significance in Germany, which feels a collective sense of moral responsibility toward victims of Nazi massacres. Norbert Frei, a historian at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, summed up the nation's mood when he said during an interview with radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk: "Even old age can't protect a person from prosecution." (See pictures of the Nazis in Paris...
...making a central priority of shrinking of the gap between rich and poor, and challenging the "mercantilization" of human beings in an age of globalization. Benedict, on Friday, led the canonization ceremony in Sao Paulo for the first-ever Brazilian-born saint, an 18th century Franciscan priest named Frei Antonio San'Anna Galvao, admired for his work with the disadvantaged. He praised Frei Galvao's "willingness to be of service to the people whenever he was asked... a bringer of peace to souls and families, and a dispenser of charity especially towards the poor and sick." Benedict is also...
...Chile into a despotic socialist state by providing him with money, man-power, and thousands of weapons. Fidel Castro toured Chile in early 1973, giving speeches in favor of Allende’s "revolution." Allende was accordingly condemned by the legislature, the judiciary, and three former presidents (including Eduardo Frei, a Marxist and former supporter of Allende) for his abuses. Finally, with many certain that a coup was inevitable given the hyperinflation (a paycheck from one week could not even afford bread in the next week), starvation, recession, and extreme civil unrest, General Augusto Pinochet took power on Sept...
Historically, Starbucks has done a great job at balancing new ideas with efficiency, says Frances Frei, a professor at Harvard business school who has studied the company. A classic example: the way it trains us to order in Starbucks jargon, grande this and half-caff that. Serving tens of thousands of possible drink combinations would be an operational nightmare were it not for a regimented logic to ordering, a marketing flourish that helps establish the atmosphere of an Italian café. "The fight in any company is [that] marketing wants more things for the customer and operations wants less," says Frei...