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Corgan wasted no time in turning to new endeavors, however. After playing guitar with British band New Order for a summer, he created Zwan, a new group with Chamberlain, guitarist Mark Sweeney, guitarist and bassist David Pajo and, later in its run, bassist Paz Lenchantin...
...This all has resonance because Bombay, Mehta says, will be the largest city in the world 11 years from now; what happens there is just a more dramatic instance of what happens in Jakarta and Bangkok and La Paz. And the only people maintaining standards and facilities in this Jacobean society are, almost inevitably, members of the criminal underworld, who run things more efficiently than do their government counterparts. Even judges turn to mobsters for help. "Our motto," a criminal overlord tells Mehta, "is insaaniyat, humanity." When an ordinary, law-abiding citizen comes to Bombay from elsewhere, Mehta shows...
...impressed by his tone—he didn’t sound too uptight,” Y. Edo Paz ’05 said. “He succeeded in having a truly personal demeanor.... I was impressed that he was able to pull off the most impressive speech of the convention after the great speeches of [former president Bill] Clinton on Monday and [Illinois senatorial candidate Barack] Obama on Tuesday...
...Indian people of Bolivia are not rich. They do not live in the moneyed neighborhoods of La Paz. They are subsistence farmers and coca growers and miners. They are the present and they are the protesters. For Quechua and the Aymara people, the natives of Bolivia, their identity is bound tightly in race or non-race (non-whiteness...
Bolivia’s race problem is not something that can be so reduced and cordoned off. It must be addressed head-on. Policy concessions about the International Monetary Fund or exports to the United States will only serve to temporarily quell the fires that light La Paz and El Alto tonight. Until there is an open and public dialogue between indigenous Bolivians and those of European heritage, until Bolivian Indians have an investment in their own governing, those fires will only smolder until the next uprising. And Bolivia will burn again...