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cocaine blues
"And now the "war on drugs" is merging with the "war on terror," with a corresponding growth in scale and firepower, offering excellent potential for long-term profits for the "defense"-related industries that hold such a disproportionate sway in international politics. This merging also accelerates the moral corrosion that flourishes under the acidic metaphor of "war"--as we can see in Bolivia."
monetary fun
"Brazil, the Workers' Party and the FT
Casino Real: Brazil's Other Challenge"
state of the nation
nothing says independence day like surveillance cameras and metal detectors.
noteworthy
semi-daily journal
ezrael
sassafrass
greedy little devils
"The corporate world is now embroiled in two controversies. There's the fraud at Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, and elsewhere; and there's the payment of absurd sums to CEOs. Both developments threaten the free-market system--you're kidding yourself if you don't think that big firms deliberately duping investors, or CEOs awarding themselves hundreds of millions of dollars that should have gone to stockholders, does anything other than erode the reputation of market economics. Both practices also trample important principles of conservative economics, as we'll see in a moment."
honor society
i used to joke about running for mayor of providence back when i was mainlining caffe lattes and choking down cigarettes on the deck outside of The Coffee Exchange. had i just lasted another decade in Providence my time would have finally arrived.
dyn-o-mite
k-tel's Music Express was the first album i ever bought. i think at the time i thought all albums were singles compilations. seeing this midi rendition of Run Joey Run reminded me of it.
i was only suggesting
had a strange moment just now. got out of a disheartenly lukewarm shower after an odd dream with cameo appearences by andrew mccarthy and alan ruck (second fiddle in ferris buellers day off) wherein i was called a traitor for smoking Drum tobacco. meanwhile, im half trying to figure out a line from paul simons Slip Slidin' Away when i stumble entoweled to my computer only to read the page i had loaded earlier this morning that was still on my screen. the headline was Slip Slidin' Away. i would have to call that suggested reading.and here are the songs lyrics.
underclassmen
"RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The unexpectedly strong showing of radical Indian agitator Evo Morales in Bolivian elections promises to deal a serious blow to the Andean nation's successful U.S.-backed efforts to halt cocaine production."
i hear footsteps
"But long before that ruling — though only a few weeks before bad news that could not be concealed caused Harken's shares to tumble — Mr. Bush sold off two-thirds of his stake, for $848,000. Just for the record, that's about four times bigger than the sale that has Martha Stewart in hot water. Oddly, though the law requires prompt disclosure of insider sales, he neglected to inform the S.E.C. about this transaction until 34 weeks had passed. An internal S.E.C. memorandum concluded that he had broken the law, but no charges were filed. This, everyone insists, had nothing to do with the fact that his father was president."