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...Machado's election technically makes him the No. 2 man in Cuba's government, but many in and outside of Cuba were left wondering whether Raul isn't, in fact, the real numero dos - to Fidel, who resigned as President last week but could continue to pull the strings until, as he hinted in his resignation letter, "my last breath." In his inaugural speech, Raul did emphasize that his priority would be to make Cuba's sclerotic system more efficient and open in order to "satisfy the basic needs of our population, both material and spiritual, starting with a sustained...
...which explains why few Mexicans were doing hat dances this week when Forbes announced that Slim, 67, had suddenly passed U.S. investment wizard Warren Buffett ($52 billion) as the world's second-richest person - and may well topple Gates as Numero Uno by the time next year's list is unveiled. Whereas Gates' wealth reflects America's tech leadership, Slim's riches -despite the sweat and savvy that built them - tend to symbolize Mexico's archaic system of monopolies and oligopolies, which helps keep almost half the nation's population in poverty by choking oxygen away from the rest...
...guess I’ll have to put off my work a few weeks,” Peters said. “Until then, the Red Sox are priority numero...
...newly patient town, it is still an anxious town, more anxious than ever - anxious, now, not in its classic Woody Allen way, nutso with neuroses, but anxious in the way of being truly scared. Maureen Dowd told us in the Times last week that Boomers everywhere, still worried about Numero Uno above all else, are now busily loading up on gas masks and all manner of anti-toxin. I don't see it, not in my experience. But I do see anxiety that wasn't there three weeks ago. The new normal has new rules about what's possible. About...
...emboldened, he embellished his persona package, at times a bandannaed pirate, at times the Punisher, who displayed a boorish attitude along with an admirably vicious game. He won another Grand Slam event, the 1995 Australian Open, and was cruising along as a bad-boy Numero Uno until he was again knocked into Kingdom Comeback by Sampras, who had more tools than a Swiss Army knife. Sampras administered a straight-set thrashing in the U.S. Open finals that cracked Agassi's karma, causing him to question whether tennis...