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...December 30, 2005, as I sat aboard a British Airways plane headed from Harare to home, a flight attendant tapped me on the shoulder and asked me a simpler question, “Are you Amar Bakshi?” I nodded yes. “Mr. Bakshi, please collect your bags; there are some men waiting for you outside.” Five men in faded tan suits stood on the causeway and told me I was in their world...
Although this position on drugs might taint him as an “incurable radical,” the truth is that Morales’ boat is testing two very different waters. He visited China with Hugo Chavez’s private plane, but he sensibly cancelled the visit to Iran and met with the American ambassador in La Paz; he talks of controlling the Santa Cruz “oligarchs” that reign over Bolivia’s wealth, but also about respecting international laws when renewing contracts with foreign investors in La Paz’s gaseous...
...However, Morales’ plane for the threecontinent tour was not courtesy of Lula or Bachelet, but thanks to Pat Robertson’s best friend: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. He leads the other Latin American gauche, and, far too often, the only one visible from the United States to Europe. His oil has bought him warplanes from Spain, guns from Russia, unsustainable welfare to calm poor masses at home, and, not surprisingly, the “unconditional support” of countries in the region. After 9/11, the Bush administration chose to take its ships and interests...
...Denis Petukhov, the other top U.S. dance pair. Gregory met Petukhov, a Russian, five years ago on an Internet message board for skaters. Petukhov flew to Colorado to test the pairing. "If it wasn't going to work, I was going to put him right back on the plane and say, 'Adios, I'm going to college,'" says Gregory. The pair clicked on the ice, started dating after about two weeks and were married in five months. Skeptics chirped that Gregory pulled a classic "Rent-a-Russian" - marry Petukhov so he can gain U.S. citizenship and qualify for the team...
...leasing aircraft from its CEO?s privately owned firm. And as part of his effort to shake up management at Time Warner (parent company of Time.com), investor Carl Icahn has been railing of late against what he calls excessive perks at the media giant, most notably the five corporate planes used by top executives for both business and personal travel. A Time Warner spokesman notes that after the expected sale of one plane the fleet will have been cut in half from a few years ago and that any executive's private travel is disclosed and treated as compensation...