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...course of his service, Richardson has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times and has been given the Aztec Eagle Award from the Mexican government, the highest honor Mexico bestows on a foreigner...
...Asian financial crisis and the Mexican bailout were both high-stakes political controversies that played out during Summers' time as a top policymaker...
...took a lot of grief, but no personal hits," she says. "When someone can come through something like the Mexican bailout without permanent scars, it's testament to their ability...
...roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in Traffic, the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...
...research his role in Traffic, he spent time with Mexican policemen. "To be a cop in Mexico is very difficult," he says. "They have to pay for their own equipment, their bullets and handcuffs. The system doesn't provide money for uniforms, for shoes. They get peanuts for a paycheck." Del Toro, who lived in Puerto Rico until he was 12, also studied with a dialect coach to master the rural Mexican accent. "I wanted it to be country, like mountain Mexico," he says, "instead of like Taco Bell or Speedy Gonzales...