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...Almost instantly, a distant wail of sirens came from all directions, even as people poured from the building, even as a second plane bore down on lower Manhattan. Louis Garcia was among the first medics on the scene. "There were people running over to us burnt from head to toe. Their hair was burned off. There were compound fractures, arms and legs sticking out of the skin. One guy had no hair left on his head." Of the six patients in his first ambulance run, two died on the way to St. Vincent's Hospital...
BOOK Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "I'm rediscovering my Latin roots, so I loved...
...them--including Brazil's Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) and Lygia Clark (1920-1988), Venezuela's Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912-1994, a sculptor who worked under the name of Gego) and Carlos Cruz-Diez, 78, and of course that long-dead Uruguayan father figure of South American abstraction, Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949)--emphatically ought...
...thousand Mexicans to work legally north of the border. Recognizing that some forms of foreign investment are beyond the pale, Fox has vowed that the 1938 nationalization of Mexican oil resources is "untouchable." "If Fox screws up royally, that's when the nationalism will come in," says Manuel Garcia y Griego, director of the Center for Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. "It's like anti-immigrant feeling in the U.S.--it's just waiting in the wings. All you have to have is unemployment going up." Though Mexican labor statistics are murky, Fox admits that...
While Green says the Gateway group never bribed anyone, it did find it helpful to include in the deal a Mexico City business partner with strong political contacts: Jose Antonio Garcia Contreras, an oil and auto magnate. The Gateway group met with dozens of candidates before choosing Garcia. "The real decision makers in Mexico are a relatively small group," Green says. "It is truly a club, in the same way the U.S. was during the 1900s when Morgan and Rockefeller ruled American business. They're wealthy men who went to the same schools, belong to the same clubs...