Word: mexicans
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...which explains why few Mexicans were doing hat dances this week when Forbes announced that Slim, 67, had suddenly passed U.S. investment wizard Warren Buffett ($52 billion) as the world's second-richest person - and may well topple Gates as Numero Uno by the time next year's list is unveiled. Whereas Gates' wealth reflects America's tech leadership, Slim's riches -despite the sweat and savvy that built them - tend to symbolize Mexico's archaic system of monopolies and oligopolies, which helps keep almost half the nation's population in poverty by choking oxygen away from the rest...
Microsoft boss Bill Gates, the world's richest man with $56 billion, and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, who is now No. 2 with $53 billion, have one thing in common besides cool private jets. They owe their fortunes to near monopoly control of their respective markets...
...while U.S. authorities have thwarted Gates' subjugation of the PC software business in recent years, Mexico has done precious little to rein in ubiquitous business empires like Slim's - which today accounts for almost half the Mexican stock exchange's $370 billion value and controls a horde of industries ranging from telecom to tobacco. Forbes magazine, in fact, noted that Slim's holdings alone represent about 7% of Mexico's GDP - and that if Gates held a similar share of the U.S. economy, he would be worth $874 billion...
Fountains of Wayne have definitely got it going on. The power-pop crooners who brought us “Stacy’s Mom” and “Mexican Wine” are back again, and this time their trademarks—unexpected subject matter and high-energy refrains—are more pronounced than ever. Mega-hit “Stacy’s Mom” dealt with teenage lust, but the band’s topics typically have far more gravity—and variety. “Traffic and Weather” addresses...
...anatomy with clichéd poetry: “Then everything turned into a succession of concrete acts and proper nouns and verbs, or pages from an anatomy manual scattered like flower petals, chaotically linked.” In another particularly moving scene, “the mother of Mexican poetry” recalls seeing soldiers and tanks herding captive students and professors into a van “like something from a World War II movie.” Determined not to “let them write [her] into their script,” she locks herself...