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...then only in bedrooms. But I'll give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday present, is covered on the new CD by World Musette, a Paris band fronted by the cartoonist Robert Crumb.) Her jealous lover creeps into the projection booth and, from there, shoots her dead. Brooks' face goes lifeless...
...order to handle its demographic bulge--but lately has been producing about half that. A balance of at least 400,000 is heading across the border, and there is no end in sight. The bitterly contested July elections--narrowly won (by a margin of 0.6%) by Felipe Calderón against the populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador--were largely fought over economic policies, as are, at least in part, the recent battles in Oaxaca. The campaign exposed a yawning chasm between those benefiting from the status quo and those falling further behind: almost 48% of Mexicans continue to live...
...referring to the broad reform agenda--fiscal, labor, energy and competition--that outgoing President Vicente Fox unveiled but then failed to deliver on. Although more politically adroit, Calderón inherits a far more acrimonious political environment, in which López Obrador still insists he is the legitimate President. This surely will complicate Calderón's dealings with the public-sector unions and with sensitive symbols like the national oil company, Pemex, which desperately needs foreign investment, now outlawed. "Mexico needs to think outside the sovereignty box," says Raul Rodriguez, former CEO of the North American Development Bank, but Mexico...
...collection, which would mean cracking down on rampant tax evasion--roughly at 50%--and the widespread abuse of legal but economically unjustified tax exemptions. "All businesses should pay tax without exemptions," says José Luis Barraza, president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, a leading business group. But for Calderón to do this on the scale needed would seem to mean taking on the powerful business interests that dominate his party (and hamstrung Fox), which played a decisive role in electing him in his razor-thin...
...inside the Yard. The girls arrived on the Harvard campus for Global Girls Day, hosted by Strong Women, Strong Girls (SWSG), the all-female campus mentoring organization promoting self-esteem and leadership skills among girls in grades three to five. Each semester, SWSG—founded by Lindsay N. Hyde ’04—invites participating girls to Harvard for a day of workshops and a chance to mingle with undergraduate women. According to Events Coordinator Caitlin M. Campbell ’09, Saturday’s international theme was inspired by Harvard’s recent initiatives?...