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...During the two days Chavez was in military custody in April, local TV aired scenes of the nation's venal political elite romping in the Miraflores presidential palace, cocktails in hand, as if it were a country club again. It reminded many Venezuelans of what they elected Chavez to throw out in 1Images like that explain so many Venezuelans still support Chavez. And as long as the oil flows, the U.S. can apparently live with him too - and the beret...
...known for his probity: The main reason he's ahead in the polls is his pledge to add a sorely lacking social-justice component to the capitalist project. He'd start, he says, with a crackdown on Brazil's epic tradition of tax evasion - especially among the nation's venal elite - a reform that Lula argues also makes good business sense. Brazil suffers from the worst concentration of wealth and governmental power on a continent whose economic and political inequality is rated the world's worst. "Every Real (Brazil's currency) in our hands will be worth more," Lula says...
...longer to get married, they often commit to a china set well before they commit to one another. While housewares are still the most popular wedding gifts, a recent survey of 66,000 couples suggests half of them would prefer money. But how to ask for cash without seeming venal? Behold, online registries...
...Consider three landmark films of the first half of the 20th century. The first "great" movie: the Civil War epic "The Birth of a Nation"(1915), whose blacks were cringing or lazy or venal or rapacious, and whose heroes were white men in white sheets. The first "talkie": "The Jazz Singer"(1927), with the white showman Al Jolson singing "Mammy" in blackface. The biggest hit of its era: "Gone With the Wind"(1939), which romanticizes slave-owning Southerners and for whom the only good Negroes were the ones who stayed with their owners after...
...state," or Pakistan's "invisible government." It has sponsored Muslim rebels in Indian-held Kashmir, and propped up the Taliban and by extension its malevolent Arab guests in Afghanistan?though it denies these charges. Its tentacles stretch into Pakistani politics, courts and everyday life. It is much feared; a venal whisper from an ISI informer can destroy a career or lead to arrest?or worse...