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...American heads of state who tilt to the port side: Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Bolivia's Evo Morales and the grand old man of social revolution, Raúl Castro. (Stone profiled Raúl's brother in a similarly indulgent 2003 poli-doc, Commandante.) The only missing socialist leader is Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua - a regime whose electoral council outlawed the two main opposition groups from participating in the 2008 election and barred outside observers from monitoring...
...dime?) Morales, the first indigenous President of Bolivia, says he considers himself "less a President than a union leader." The Illinois-educated Correa says smilingly that the U.S. can again have a military base in Ecuador "if Ecuador can have a military base in Miami." Raúl Castro, survivor of a half-century of American disapproval, toasts his younger compadres: "Now we're ready for another 50 years...
...with interests in energy, automobiles and health care. Il Sole 24 Ore, the country's financial paper, is owned by Italy's main industrial lobby. "Italian entrepreneurs tend to depend largely on Italian politics," says Ricardo Franco Levi, an opposition parliamentarian and the former editor in chief of L'Indipendente, a short-lived 1991 attempt at a truly independent newspaper. "The possibilities of aggressive reporting are very, very limited." (Read: "The Berlusconi Tapes: 5 Ways to Evade the Scandal...
...always welcome competition of ideas on campus,” said Rachel L. Wagley ’11, co-president of Harvard’s pro-abstinence group, True Love Revolution. “The more the merrier...
...paradox, of course, is that that his filing lawsuits over the scandals sets off another round of ribald accounts of Berlusconi's private life. The latest suit was filed Wednesday against another left-leaning Italian daily, L'Unita, which had referred to a comedienne's sketch about Berlusconi allegedly taking medical injections that allow him to have sex. The Prime Minister's attorney, Niccolo Ghedini, explained to the daily Corriere della Sera on Friday that if necessary Berlusconi would testify in the libel case to prove that he is not impotent: "And why shouldn't Berlusconi be allowed to explain...