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...trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop." PAT ROBERTSON,American televangelist, referring to Hugo Chavez, President of oil-rich Venezuela and a vocal critic of the U.S., on his cable-TV show. Robertson apologized two days later...
...About to be published in Australia and New Zealand, The Truth About the Drug Companies (Scribe Publications; 319 pages) is an unrelenting attack on the practices of the world's largest medicine makers, which Angell portrays as rich behemoths that have abandoned the once noble goals of their industry in pursuit of profit. It's hard to argue with the rich bit: according to the latest Fortune 500, U.S. giant Pfizer had revenues last year of $53 billion, of which $11 billion were profits...
...Perhaps an even more important factor is populist backing: leftism is on the rise again in Latin America for a reason, namely the burgeoning feeling around the region that a decade of U.S.-backed capitalist reforms has simply widened an already epic gap between rich and poor-and that the Bush Administration is indifferent to it. As Chavez uses his multi-billion-dollar oil revenues to fund the kind of social projects that Venezuela's legions of impoverished never saw from his kleptocratic predecessors-and to subsidize cheaper oil for his cash-strapped Latin neighbors-more people are willing...
...Berendt been for the past 11 years? It has been that long since he wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which spent four of those years on best-seller lists. The answer, apparently, is Venice. That makes sense: Where else could Berendt find the mix of rich gossip and Gothic calamity that made his portrait of Savannah, Ga., so fascinating...
...seis campa?as presidenciales. Con la ayuda de Sosa, George W. Bush logr? capturar el 40% del voto hispano, un incremento gigantesco sobre el 21% que recibi? Bob Dole en 1996. Ahora parcialmente jubilado, Sosa, de 66 a?os, se dedica a pintar y escribir (su ?ltimo libro, Think and Grow Rich: A Latino Choice, saldr? el pr?ximo a?o), pero si lo llaman en el 2008, volver? al campo de batalla electoral...