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Eight years ago, after the closing of GM's Fisher Body plant, Michael Moore's sarcastic film Roger & Me portrayed Flint as a dying community. But since then U.S. automakers have turned themselves from the world's highest- cost producers to those with the lowest costs: only $42 in wages...
The Latin-American community has typically been viewed as a Democratic stronghold, but they are beginning to move toward the right, said Mercedes L. Barnet, president of Massachusetts Hispanic Republicans.
Today, however, both these visual keynotes have been replaced by the chaos of capitalism's dikaya zhizn, or "wild life": weather-beaten babushkas who beg from filthy sidewalks, marauding bands of gypsy children, Lycra-skirted strumpets cavorting with Western businessmen, bankers tooling around town in armor-plated Mercedes, mafia moguls...
The city's noviye bogati, or nouveaux riches, are a small but growing elite numbering some 300,000 (a class of notables whom 13% of the country, according to a survey conducted by Moscow News, would like to see thrown in prison). These are the post-Soviet sybarites who patronize...
The Simpsons' marriage began to take on the classic signs of a fatal struggle. Friends called the relationship dangerous, dysfunctional, two passionate people goading and scraping at each other. One mutual acquaintance, cabaret singer Jennifer Young, recalls walking down Rodeo Drive one day after a lunch party with O.J. and...