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Executives at U.S. and European oil firms privately say the government is helping them find ways around the hydrocarbons law. If so, the extra capital could be good news for what Rodriguez considers the soul of his reforms--the PDVSA-financed social projects, whose popularity among the poor may spell the difference for Chavez in the referendum. "We're going to be an even more model oil company," says Rodriguez, "because we'll be as visible in the barrios as we are in the markets." The policy wonk, in other words, is still a rebel. --With reporting by Brian Ellsworth/Caracas
...Tyrant's Novel was written, sagely, sinuously, under the spell of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and their mad generalissimos. There is everywhere a whiff of Graham Greene, with his moral skirmishing in the gray areas. The current Iraq war is one of those. Keneally, who knows something about lies and hypocrisy, could have told you it would be. --By Richard Lacayo
...Vanities and big hair, were shorter than they seem in memory. They began around the middle of his first term, after the 1981 recession gave way to the boom years, and ended midway through his second, when Iran-contra broke and so in some ways did Reagan's spell. But however briefly they lasted, those years habituated us to a giddy, swaggering, saw-toothed capitalism that seemed a bit appalling then. It feels much more familiar now. Because the country had lived through the '80s, through all those poison pills and hostile takeovers and Donald Trump, the unapologetic materialism...
Fraternity parties at MIT rarely spell wedded bliss, but for Matthew H. Eckhouse ’04, one such get-together was the scene where he met his future wife, Geanina I. Hent. He and the 2004 Wellesley graduate Hent have been dating since their first undergraduate year and plan to marry in a few years...
...more than the moments of high drama--the grace with which his father fulfilled his daily obligations. His principles are as simple as the book's chapter titles: "Work," "Faith" and "Discipline." Big Russ worked for the sanitation department in the morning, crashed diagonally on his bed for a spell and then drove a newspaper truck at night. When he was eligible to retire at age 55, he had accumulated 200 unused sick days...