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That new populist bravado, which Chávez has backed up with a multibillion- dollar social-spending program at home, has spread to South American countries like Bolivia, where two Presidents have resigned in less than two years after raucous protests calling for the nationalization of vast, newly discovered natural-gas reserves. Says Amy Myers Jaffe, an analyst at the Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston: "Chávez has seemingly become a leader who can galvanize antiglobalization agendas anywhere...
Funny thing about fashion: just when everyone--including the copycats who are now a mouse-click away--is cashing in on the look of the moment, some Young Turk will thrust a seemingly absurd idea onto the runway and turn the multibillion-dollar global business on its head. Prada did it when she introduced that ladylike look just as every fashionista was baring her navel. And a year ago, Italian designer Stefano Pilati gave the crowd at his debut Yves Saint Laurent show a jolt when he suggested the awkward silhouette of short, tulip-shaped skirts and puff-sleeved blouses...
...Development Donella M. Rapier, clearly pleased by the results in an interview yesterday, attributed the rise to donor support for University-wide priorities like the sciences, and buoyed by several sizable gifts. The strong showing comes as the University is in the midst of the quiet phase of a multibillion-dollar capital campaign...
...strong results come in the run-up to Harvard’s multibillion-dollar capital campaign, as the University meets with donors to solicit gifts and discuss its priorities...
...NINA WANG, 68, Asia's richest woman; an eight-year legal battle for control of her dead husband's multibillion-dollar real-estate empire; in Hong Kong. The Court of Final Appeal unanimously overturned a 2002 ruling that a will in which husband Teddy Wang left her his entire estate had been forged; the industrialist was kidnapped in 1990 and declared legally dead nine years later. Nina Wang, famous for her schoolgirl pigtails and flamboyant fashion sense, now regains full control of the Chinachem Group, the company that she built into a $3.5 billion enterprise after taking control following...