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...gold mine with no way to extract the bullion. Their stacks of dollars and pesos added up to nothing because there was nothing to buy: no bars, no brothels, no BMW dealerships. "Imagine having so much money and nothing to eat!" said one of the Colombian GIs, Frankistey Giraldo, whose father named him after Frankenstein. When they looked at themselves, they still saw a bunch of hungry, unwashed peasants in the middle of no-man's land. They were fabulously wealthy. Except they weren...
...hosts are winners--we'd trade Rhodes for San Francisco's Bernie Ward, the Texas populist Jim Hightower or the class act of Tough Crowd, Greg Giraldo--but there's still a wealth of useful, funny infotainment on offer 15 hours a day. Franken got steely Richard Clarke to crack a joke about majority leader Bill Frist's attack on him (Frist "obviously was on puppy uppers when he gave that speech") and persuaded best-selling troublemaker Michael Moore to cozy up to Al Gore ("Hello, Al. Or should I say 'Mr. President'?"). On the morning show, Public Enemy...
...thing I learned during my years as CEO is that perception matters." Jack Welch, former chief executive of General Electric, announcing his decision to forgo many of his retirement perks after they drew criticism in the media "Devaluations are not risks in Latin America, they are certainties." Mario Giraldo, president of Colombian foodmaker Noel, on the region's monetary woes "He was the Great Satan, the personification of evil. But after watching this film you end up just a little bit in love with him." Alexei Kazakov, Moscow movie critic, on The Oligarch, based on the life of tycoon Boris...
...prime-time fall lineups last week, appear to be turning away from minority programming. CBS will have only one black-themed show next fall, a new Bill Cosby sitcom. ABC will have only the aging sitcom Family Matters and the new sitcom Common Law, with Latino stand-up Greg Giraldo. Fox, once a bastion of black comedy, is down to Martin, Living Single and the multiracial drama New York Undercover. All told, that's six minority-themed shows on the Big Four networks. Three years ago, there were...
...innacuracies that Matei Mihalca listed in her letter last Saturday about Fabian Giraldo's arts article were due to editing errors...