Word: rubins
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...Ortega's accusers are not limited to Nicaragua's small feminist organizations. The minister of women's affairs in Paraguay's new left-wing government, Gloria Rubin, whipped up a media storm in August by calling Ortega a "rapist" and protesting his invitation to President Fernando Lugo's inauguration - an event Ortega eventually skipped to avoid the heat. A week later in Honduras, Selma Estrada, minister of the National Institute of Women, resigned her government post in protest over the official invitation of Ortega to Tegucigalpa. And in El Salvador, feminist leaders are asking their government to declare Ortega persona...
...their composure when they swing over into metal, but at their best, Metallica plays with more deliberate sophistication than any band that’s ever shred. Fanboys will no doubt note that “Death Magnetic” is Metallica’s first collaboration with Rick Rubin, the legendary producer behind Slayer and System, among others; his influence lends the album its spare, deathly tint. But even as James Hetfield’s lyrics darken, the band continues to invent itself out of its songs’ subject matter. Although Hetfield vows to kill himself...
...Another part of the job is choosing advisers, and in preparing for this moment, Obama consulted a glittering cast, including former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker - the man who whipped inflation - and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who briefly erased the deficit. Yet another role of the President is to set priorities. That's where Obama stumbled...
...stoner in real life or just in the movies? Adam Odsess-Rubin BERKELEY, CALIF...
...then, on July 28, Barack Obama held an economic summit with his covey of advisers - people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus. They had - contra voodoo - raised taxes and yet produced an economic boom. There was a fair amount of argument behind closed doors, I'm told, between the two groups that sparred...