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Calderón has smartly gained presidential footing by launching a military assault on Mexico's horrific crime problem, which includes drug traffickers who have been tossing rivals' decapitated heads into streets and nightclubs. But his biggest challenge is bridging the country's epic gap between rich and poor. Almost half of Mexico's population lives in poverty--a big reason that so many are flooding the border to work in the U.S. Keeping more Mexicans at home will almost certainly require Calderón to rein in, if not break up, the entrenched monopolies that suck vital investment from small...
...truce has held solid with very few exceptions, affording Air France the stability needed to close the gap with competitors that had been restructuring and modernizing since the early 1990s. Ironically, Air France began its overhaul just as business began to pick up. So the company is in the midst of a renewal of its fleet of 254 aircraft--including cabin overhauls--without taking on massive debt. It has spent $5.2 billion to put 85 new aircraft into service in the past five years, with an additional 22 on order, including 10 Airbus 380s...
...million Estimated amount that Gap, Apple and Motorola have spent on marketing the RED Campaign, launched a year ago to benefit the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...
...hybrid between a straightforward news broadcast and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.â€As a relatively young organization—(literally—it’s comprised largely of freshmen and sophomores), HRTV has high hopes for its future and the gap it hopes to fill on the Harvard campus.STRANGE BEDFELLOWS“HRTV and ‘Ivory Tower’ are important because there are so few outlets at Harvard for students to get involved in commercial film making,†says Eve A. Lebwohl ’08, HRTV...
...air†radio, listeners have the illusion that satellite radio, with Howard Stern as its icon, is more edgy than local radio. But other than the notoriously vulgar Stern, the bulk of satellite radio’s content is as bland and commercialized as the music in the Gap. Satellite service is embraced as the future of radio because it is new technology, and new technology seems like the only way to save old-fashioned broadcast radio. But in placing itself in direct competition with broadcast radio, satellite radio only offers to reinvent the wheel, and does so poorly.In...