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...husband rarely give interviews and discourage their officials from speaking to the press. Meanwhile, the President ditched her star economy minister, Martin Lousteau, a month ago after he put forward a 13-point plan to reduce public spending and discourage consumption to put a damper on prices. That plan ran counter to the combination of high growth rates and price caps favored by Fernandez and Kirchner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Meltdown for Argentina's Hillary | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...Aside from his academic endeavors, for Segal, running was paramount. As a member of the track team, he ran his first Boston Marathon in 1955, and continued to run the marathon until 1975, according to the Boston Athletic Association...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Erich W. Segal | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...viewed the University as a monolithic structure taking over student businesses,” John D. Bagdade ’58, who ran the Birthday Cake Agency, said recently. “The risk was that it would stifle entrepreneurial efforts...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Evolving Face of HSA | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...Hveragerdi, a small town built on a geothermal field so active that geysers have been known to spontaneously sprout in people's backyards, two boys bounce a pair of basketballs past the squadron of SAR volunteers. Did they feel the quake? "Yeah!" says Thorarinn Fridricksson, dribbling his ball. "We ran outside. I was laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Loneliest Quake on the Planet | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...adopted as a kind of a patron saint by the northern province's drug traffickers. Sinaloa is the cradle of Mexico's narco-trafficking industry, producing the majority of the nation's drug kingpins in recent decades. Their number includes such storied figures as Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who ran the Guadalajara Cartel and ordered the savage killing of a DEA agent; Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias "The Lord of the Skies," who died in plastic surgery while attempting to change his appearance; and the Arellano Felix brothers, who ran Tijuana as a personal fiefdom. The state of 2.5 million people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Drug War Goes 'Behind Enemy Lines' | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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