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...title conjures up lighthearted, even ludicrous, images of an elderly man in a grey Chilean general's uniform, weaving his way through the tourist-packed arteries of London's neon heart. But Pinochet in Piccadilly (Faber and Faber; 280 pages), British journalist Andy Beckett's examination of the economic, political and social links between Britain and Chile, is no pleasant day out in a democratic capital. For Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the former Chilean dictator, there will be no more trips to Piccadilly or, indeed, anywhere in Europe. As both arms buyer and tourist over the years, Pinochet loved to visit...
Apparently, in order to be a bleeding-heart liberal, you have to toss aside one other old-fashioned value: thought. As the sit-in approached its third week, somewhere in Harvard Yard a first-year student handed me a neon-orange leaflet emblazoned with “Living Wage Now!” I asked him why he supported the living wage. He responded with a pre-programmed response that he’d practically memorized from a handout. I asked him about the socioeconomic principles behind the movement. He stammered. I pressed for his opinion. He told...
...over the hill. To announce yet another world tour, the ROLLING STONES ruled out issuing a press release. Instead, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards invited journalists to stand in a Bronx, N.Y., park as the band members hovered overhead for 20 minutes in a neon-yellow dirigible before disembarking to hold a press conference. The tour will kick off Sept. 5 in Boston, and the Stones hope to end in China, where they have never played. They also plan to release a greatest-hits album and record some new songs. Couldn't they just act like...
...Baghdad for April 28, better known as the birthday of Iraq's eternal President, which the country celebrates with great ceremony, a cross between Christmas (suddenly all the blinking neon lights on the street are lighted as the government turns on regular electricity) and the Fourth of July (with the obligatory patriotic parades). Journalists who usually never get visas fill the press center. Handsomely dressed Arabs crowd the Al-Rashid lobby, all invited to witness how much the Iraqi people love their leader. For Saddam, it is time for another charm offensive: he is using all his old diplomatic wiles...
...many a gossiper’s dismay, Mather’s “Decadenza” failed to live up to its lecherous and depraved advertisements. In fact, there was more excitement in the onslaught of vicious Mather-open e-mails slamming the neon ads for the dance that promised free entrance for first-year females than in the dance itself...