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After six years as The New York Times bureau chief in Mexico City, Riding has developed an understanding of this complex nation equaled by few. In Distant Neighbors be shares the wealth, explaining the intricacies of a complex nation. Distant Neighbors' best moments come early in the book, as Riding methodically dissects Mexican culture, language and lifestyle. He understands the peculiarities of Mexico's historical legacy and the influence this legacy has in a nation preoccupied with its past. He also explains the ambivalence Mexicans have toward the giant to the north a nation they regard with a mixture...
...current period of crisis in the midst of which Mexico now seems to be. Riding's fears are well founded. The two pillars of Mexico's past stability, its economic success and the resilience of the PRI, both appear weak. The country gambled on its new-found oil wealth, borrowing heavily through the 1970s and using the black gold as collateral. But oil prices have stagnated while interest rates have risen, leaving Mexico with a debt burden approaching 100 billion dollars...
...attending this historic Institution will have a world of opportunity at your command. Many of you will in a matter of years be able to afford cars and clothes and things of materialistic value, but what about your values? As doctors, you must choose public health over private wealth. As lawyers you must choose the pursuit of justice over the political pursuit of judgeship. As teachers, you must teach for life, not just for a living. Our values will determine our value. You must measure your character, not by the size of your car, but rather by who you will...
...year, according to scholars, that Matthew Arnold wrote his poem Dover Beach, England was the richest, most powerful, most industrially sophisticated nation in the world. Progress was the nation's goddess, in whose honor was staged the Great Exhibition of 1851, a festival of English wealth and material advancement. While England celebrated itself, Arnold was on his honeymoon in the seaport town of Dover, writing a brief poem that eventually would be remembered by many more people than would remember the Great Exhibition, indeed would become the most anthologized poem in English. But Dover Beach was not a celebration...
...financial needs of the Glum & Glass Corp., but the structure offends and dispirits the employees, who work in airless boxes, as well as those outside the building who are forced to see the thing. "Has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested?" asked Tom Wolfe in his contentious book on the Bauhaus. Wolfe railed against the citizen's abdication of control of modern architecture, and his anger may well embrace $ all the ugly furnishings of the times, which people have...