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...left with a world that even just five years ago would have seemed topsy turvy: an Indian software firm that employs 500 people in Puerto Rico, a Chinese auto-parts maker with R&D centers in Detroit and Ontario, Calif. If you're a region trying to hang on to business, geography offers little protection anymore, especially as free-trade zones proliferate in countries from Dubai to Mauritius, and burgeoning heavyweights like Turkey take out full-page ads in US magazines boasting about their university graduates and gains in GDP. "Your competitors are in your backyard...
...poor family, his trophy wife, the celebrity that comes to him. There has never been much point in deploring a gangster's rise; it's his demise that we fear - the notion that the American go-getter must inevitably be gotten. "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Robinson moans at the end of Little Ceasar -as surprised as we are by a death that may be tragically ordained, but is also a sop to conventional morality...
...Your father has borne a lot of criticism as President. How does your family deal with all that is said about him? -Leo Federico, Rio Rico, Ariz.We don't watch too much television. The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again...
...Salon. “If I can draw a crowd and people stop doing whatever they’re doing, I’m on the right path, you know?”‘AMERICAN HAS TALENT!’Gian Carlo Buscaglia is originally from Puerto Rico and says that when he’s not playing in the Square, he performs with a 15-piece band at various venues in the area.Singing primarily in Spanish, playing a plugged-in acoustic guitar and settled in front of Hidden Sweets, Buscaglia brings humor to his performance, both through...
...Square will be seen as an institution within the community.” Zebny hopes to soon keep the café level open 24 hours a day, which would go a long way towards enshrining Z Square in students’ hearts. Pinocchio’s co-owner Rico DiCenso was instinctively suspicious of the neighborhood’s move upscale. But, like Zebny, he is now excited about what he sees as a revitalized Harvard Square.“They’ve been doing a lot of work on the streets… kind of sprucing...