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Welcome to the one-hand-washes-the-other world of "Jim-Bob" Moffett, a former University of Texas football star, geologist and amateur Elvis-impersonator who built Freeport into a mining behemoth with annual revenues of almost $2 billion. Moffett himself is an F.O.S., or friend of Suharto, the ousted dictator of Indonesia, a country that is now a fuse in search of a match. An often violent election campaign leads up to voting on June 7 that could bring to power reformers long critical of Freeport...
...kingdom where Gullichsen washed ashore a few years back after wandering the globe on profits from the sale of his first two companies: the virtual-reality venture Sense8 and the "virtual TV" start-up Warp. Tonga is a tiny place (pop. 100,000), and Gullichsen soon made a powerful friend, the island's Crown Prince Tupouto'a, who appointed him technology adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense, responsible for everything from Tonga's air-surveillance network to its e-mail system...
...dinner in New York City with a Chinese friend who makes huge business deals on the mainland. She was just back from Beijing. "Business is business," she said, when I asked the obvious question. "Politics is politics." And so a multimillion-dollar sale proceeded smoothly even as NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and the Cox report detailed Chinese nuclear espionage in America...
...Chinese friend would not budge. The options on the dinner table were 1) conspiracy--which, after all, answers human nature's need to blame a hidden hand, a deeper complexity of cause, and 2) stupidity, that great but underappreciated presence in human history...
Hovering behind its presentation is the vaguely boosterish feeling that Degas felt some unusual affinity to New Orleans and to Louisiana in general. "Louisiana must be respected by all her children," he wrote to his friend Henri Rouart in Paris, "and I am almost one of them." Alas, it's Degas being ironic. The sentences before make this clear: speaking of New Orleans women, he wrote that "their heads are as weak as mine, which a deux would prove a strange guarantee for a new home...