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...will ask the International Monetary Fund to renegotiate the country's foreign debt. Through it all, the military will be watching. Warns one foreign observer: "If chaos starts to set in, the generals will not waste any time taking the government back." --By Hunter R. Clark. Reported by Ricardo Chavira/Guatemala City
...Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development...
...works in that vein were fantasies on paper or sets for Sean Connery. Some got built. Ricardo Porro is a Cuban architect who for a while enthusiastically served Fidel Castro but eventually emigrated to Paris. The Mori show includes a slide presentation of his two most important works: a pair of art schools constructed of brick and terra-cotta outside Havana in the early '60s, sensual structures based on repeated Catalan arches. But before they could be completed, Porro fell under suspicion for his bourgeois background and his Expressionist style. Funding was withdrawn and the projects left uncompleted...
...M.I.T. and one of the most respected economists of all time. Samuelson took aim at the theoretical underpinning of globalization. For its proponents, globalization is the latest proof of the virtues of free trade, for which the case was first made in 1817 by the British economist David Ricardo. Ricardo argued that trade was always beneficial because it encourages nations to specialize in the products at which they are best and import those they are less good at. So if a rich country like the U.S. is much better at making computers than a poor country like China but only...
Critics say the city is suffering from mismanagement and from the cost of Mayor Richard Daley's pet projects, among them the recently completed $475 million Millennium Park. "We don't want to cut services or raise property taxes. That's political suicide," says city alderman Ricardo Muņoz. "So the tighter the budget gets, the more creative we get." The latest budget draft hikes the sales tax from 8.75% to 9%, the highest among big U.S. cities. And Daley has backed an idea to fine people caught with small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them--proof once again...