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...effect colonialism is still having on native populations in Latin America: "The massacres of Indians that began with Columbus never stopped ... The Yaqui Indians of the Mexican state of Sonora were drowned in blood so that their lands, fertile and rich in minerals, could be sold without an unpleasantness to various U.S. capitalists ... On the Andean slopes near Bogota, the Indian peon must still give a day's work without pay to get the hacendado's permission to farm his own plot on moonlit nights...
...could have sold tickets: Bernie Madoff approaching Donald Trump in Palm Beach, asking whether Trump would like to invest some money with him. The Donald, as he recalls in his new book, Think Like a Champion, said no. He also calls Madoff "a scoundrel without par." And refers to himself as "a genius." For those who see Trump's blazing self-confidence as a perfect antidote for these depressing, recession-wracked times, the Donald also continues to buoy spirits with his hit NBC series, The Apprentice. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Trump at his Trump Tower office in Manhattan...
...firm cannot use government money to bid for Chrysler's assets if it is forced into bankruptcy. In France, Citroen and Peugeot are facing financial problems that could get much worse if car sales remain anemic. GM's (GM) Opel unit in Europe needs immediate capital and may be sold at a loss for the No.1 U.S. car company. The Chinese could pick up brands, manufacturing assets, product-development personnel and dealer networks on both sides of the Atlantic...
...appeals judges did. Expressing disappointment in the judges’ ruling, D. Yvette Wohn, a Harvard Extension School student assisting Nesson with public relations, said the recording industry is stuck in an age where music came on a CD and could be expressly owned and sold. “Broadcasting this case over the Internet is very relevant because it applies the Internet in a way that hasn’t been done before,” Wohn said. “By being denied the webcast, Joel is losing his constitutional right to a public trial...
...addicted to gambling do not exhibit such control. The study began in February 2005 and observed 3,445 subscribers to BWIN, an Austria-based gaming Web site. The participants’ poker outcomes were analyzed over the course of two years, and the number of chips they bought and sold per session was tallied. The study, which investigated online gambling as “a potential object of addictive behavior,” concluded that the availability of Internet gambling is not correlated to gambling addiction. “The very first thing we learned, which we didn?...