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When the members of the French socialist Party held their summer seminar in the pretty coast town of La Rochelle last month, they discussed the sort of topics that only a true policy wonk could love. Does there need to be "a new equilibrium between labor and capital"? Is Latin America "the new horizon of socialism"? [an error occurred while processing this directive] Behind the high-toned banter, however, lay a visceral political yearning. France's left has not held the nation's presidency since 1995, and it is hungry for power. It might be thought odd, then, that...
DIED. Guy Gabaldon, 80, who as an 18-year-old Marine in World War II earned the Navy Cross for persuading more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender during the Battle of Saipan, a feat depicted in the 1960 movie Hell to Eternity; in Old Town, Fla. Relying on adrenaline and a few Japanese phrases, Gabaldon convinced his enemies that the alternative to surrendering with dignity was a more violent capture by awaiting U.S. forces. "I must have seen too many John Wayne movies," he later wrote. "Because what I was doing was suicidal...
...already in on the action. Early this year Maputo stood in for Sierra Leone for Leonardo DiCaprio's next film, The Blood Diamond, and DiCaprio was seen at the city's French-African-Portuguese fusion restaurant, Las Brasas, which has a reputation for serving the best steaks in town. This new capitalism is not to everybody's taste. "Advertising billboards seem to be the new architecture of the city," says Tiago Paulo, a 29-year-old guitarist in the reggae-ska-dub band 340ml, popular in South Africa. In Triunfo, a suburb next to the sea, the high walls...
...rich and stylish who live on the coasts. I have never actually seen a Segway, much less been counseled as to how much one could improve my life. Perhaps if the company offered some discounted units to police departments, baseball stadiums or even a few small-town civic organizations, potential customers could see one in action - and that just might help make a few sales. Mike Coleman Union, Missouri, U.S. My daughter-in-law has multiple sclerosis and uses a Segway in the house. She had her car adapted for ease in getting the Segway into the back...
...Castano's message to me was curt: get on a plane to a town across the gulf from Panama, and someone will meet you. Sure enough, a photographer and I landed on an airstrip cut in a cane field, and a very muscular Colombian escorted us to his four-wheel drive vehicle. There was another passenger: a glamorous woman whose arms were so laden with gold and emerald jewelry she could barely lift them. She was silent the entire journey, pensively tracing raindrops on the car window with her red lacquered fingernails...