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Billionaire Sebastián Piñera won Chile's election on Jan. 17, making him the first conservative elected President in more than half a century. Piñera edged out Eduardo Frei, the center-left former President, who was backed by the widely popular outgoing President, Michelle Bachelet. Piñera won almost 52% of the vote, breaking the center left's hold on the office, which began after Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship ended in 1990. Analysts attributed the result to Frei's lackluster campaign and Piñera's ability to separate himself from the legacy of Pinochet's rule...
...food giant Kraft has reached an agreement to buy 186-year-old British confectioner Cadbury for $19.5 billion, ending months of resistance and rejected offers. But the takeover has left a bad taste for British citizens upset at the sale of a national icon--and for Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett, who criticized the purchase. If finalized, the deal will make Kraft the largest player in the global candy market, displacing Mars...
...living tossed from their homes to commune with the dead in the streets. In the days following the quake, corpses had to be collected in wheelbarrows and shopping carts; at the city's Grand Cimetière, with its elegant tombs, chickens pecked at bodies stacked along the central path, left by families who couldn't afford a burial. Other remains were loaded by bulldozer into dump trucks and hauled away to mass burials in the cursed swamplands outside the city. Everywhere were funeral pyres, fueled by wood crates or old tires, set alight by people who had given up hope...
...that some little movie will leave audiences limp with emotion and gratitude. A bunch of these true-life uplifters (The Sound of Music, A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Schindler's List, A Beautiful Mind) have won the Oscar for Best Picture, and many others (My Left Foot, Awakenings, Shine, Erin Brockovich, The Pianist, Seabiscuit) have been nominated. It may be that members of the Motion Picture Academy, on the whole far older than the average movie audience, recall when the inspirational was so popular that it had a nickname: the four-hankie movie. Now the genre...
Teddy, who died Jan. 13 at 59, came from a spiritual family in North Philadelphia, and after a tragic automobile accident in 1982 left him paralyzed from the chest down, the faith he'd inherited from his mother Ida helped sustain him. Despite his own injuries, Teddy dedicated the rest of his life to helping others with spinal-cord trauma. He was our best friend, a great humanitarian and a tremendous musical force. His legacy will live...