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...Pacharan is the latest venture from the Indochina Assets Group, whose nearby flagship bar-restaurant, the Foreign Correspondents Club, has long shed its roots as a rowdy journalist hangout to become a slick fixture on the tourist trail. If you fancy a tapeo - that's the Spanish term for a tapas bar crawl - then your next stop is Vietnam, where the group runs a branch of Pacharan in Ho Chi Minh City...
...free-market policies deliver a similarly damning verdict. In Russia, for example, where the transition to full-fledged capitalism was facilitated by our very own institution, “shock therapy” begot a country where 74 million people were living below the poverty line. As the journalist Naomi Klein has noted, given that only two million were poor in 1989 (defined here as living on less than $4 per day), this “means that Russia’s ‘economic reforms’ can claim credit for the impoverishment of 72 million people...
Admirers gathered last night at the Brattle Theatre to honor the life and work of the late author and journalist David L. Halberstam...
Halberstam, Woodward recalled, was endowed with a “raw skepticism” that made him an effective investigative journalist. “He didn’t give a rat’s ass about the reaction that powerful people had about [what he reported]. In fact, he was glad if they were mad about it,” Woodward said...
...pressed holding off the fresh-faced Opposition leader Kevin Rudd. Knowing that task would be even tougher if Howard could be distracted by a tough contest on his home turf, Labor announced in February that its candidate in Bennelong would be Maxine McKew, a distinguished, high-profile former television journalist. The partner of Bob Hogg, a former national secretary of the Labor Party, McKew still doesn't get close to Howard for political experience; but her charm, eloquence and good looks make her a formidable candidate, and she's forced the Prime Minister to spend more time pressing the flesh...