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...Panama's Presidents), with the support of her children is battling to get the will declared invalid. They say the will's U.S. executor, Florida tax attorney Richard Lehman, concocted the charity donation so he could split the money with other Lucom cronies. Hilda's Panamanian lawyer, Hector Infante, known for political connections and tough tactics, has pressed criminal charges against Lehman--even accusing him of having euthanized Lucom. (That charge was dismissed.) Lehman has sued Hilda and Infante for defamation, but he no longer travels to Panama, fearing he would be arrested. Still, he says, "I wouldn...
...recently starred in the movie El Cantante, about salsa legend Hector Lavoe. How has he influenced your and your husband Marc Anthony's music? -Joshua Benjamin, Los AngelesThat whole era of music was such an important moment in musical history, and it influenced us a lot. They took some street, put it into music, mixed it all up and came up with this whole different sound. It influenced Marc, obviously, because he does salsa music. But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance...
...flush more than just King out into the open. While it falls to the Bank of England to shore up stability in the country's banking sector, it's the job of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to supervise individual banks. Callum McCarthy, the regulator's chairman, and CEO Hector Sants are now set to appear in front of the parliamentary committee next month. Alistair Darling, the U.K. Chancellor, is expected to show too. Expect the FSA to come in for even more criticism than King, reckons Buik. In the longer term, though, King's banking that the crisis leaves...
...strange goings-on was his proclamation that Venezuela will move its time zone back by a half hour, starting in the third week of September. The government expects the measure to give Venezuelans a more equitable distribution of sunlight and, in the words of science and technology minister Hector Navarro, help "organize the country and social life in a more rational manner." Upon hearing the proclamation, a U.S. newspaper suggested recent headlines made the Caracas press read like The Onion, and drew comparisons between Venezuela and Woody Allen's film Bananas. In that movie, Allen's revolutionary hero-turned-president...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wants to help citizens improve their metabolism and efficiency, so on Jan. 1, 2008, he plans to move clocks ahead 30 minutes. During a seven-hour radio address, Chávez said that "the human brain is conditioned by sunlight" and Technology Minister Hector Navarro noted that more daylight hours would benefit "all Venezuelans in their jobs and studies...