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...Jerry Haar, a business dean at Florida International University, and John Price, head of Latin American business intelligence at Kroll InfoAmericas, offer reform advice for the hemisphere in Can Latin America Compete? Confronting the Challenges of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan; 336 pages...
...20th century between socially negligent capitalism and fiscally profligate populism. But today they lead a potent common market, Mercosur. (Chile is an associate member.) And while each has a leftist President--Chile's Michelle Bachelet is also a socialist--the ABCs are spelling a model, "pragmatic socialism," says Jerry Haar, an international-business professor at Florida International University in Miami and a co-author of Can Latin America Compete? "They're managing the precarious balancing act between Milton Friedman and Santa Claus," says Haar, "drawing both to a more globally competitive middle...
Past failures don't scare Americans. They believe in location, and in golf, Scotland is it. You can understand why on late-summer evenings in St. Andrews. Often a white sheet of mist, known locally as haar, spreads over the Old Course from the North Sea, as if the spirits of the world's great golfers were tucking their cherished course into bed. Through the mist, golfers place white balls on tees as though lighting sacramental candles. Or is that Americans praying for a fat return on their grand investments...
...have a family. The concept of working outside the home in order to provide a good role model for your children and the best possible education for them has not yet taken root in German society, but there are signs of change on the horizon. Peg DeRose-Schaefer Haar, Germany Gay Virtues Critic Richard Corliss's piece "How the WEST Was Won Over" described the critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain [Jan. 30]. I only wish we could hear someone at the Academy Awards announce, "The Oscar goes to Brokeback Mountain for showing how virility, strong-mindedness...
...decision, however, can be more sensitive than you might think. Those who embrace the idea in the abstract are sometimes hesitant to talk about it publicly. "When I'm asked what brought me to Texas, I just about choke," says Leanna Haar, 62. "If I admit that I left Omaha to be near my son and his family in Texas, people assume I've settled into a dotty old age, that I'm nobody except a grandma. It's weird to think of myself that way--and not true...