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  • Paulina Rubio to be judge on `X Factor

    Paulina Rubio will join the panel of judges for the popular Fox television show "The X Factor" next season, the Mexican singer's representative announced Tuesday. Rubio will join the judging panel - which includes show creator Simon Cowell, Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child and Disney star Demi Lovato - during the musical contest show's third season. "I love 'The X Factor'! I can't wait to find ...

  • Mexican firm to acquire US wireless operator

    Mexican telecommunications giant America Movil says it has agreed to buy US mobile operator Start Wireless Group for an undisclosed amount. In a filing with the Mexican Stock Exchange, the Mexico City-based company announced its US unit Tracfone Wireless had reached a deal to acquire the assets of Start Wireless Group, an Ohio-based mobile virtual network operator. The transaction is expected ...

  • Mexicos Pemex to add 30000 bpd capacity to Salinas Cruz

    By Adriana Barrera and David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's state oil monopoly Pemex PEMX.UL will boost capacity at its biggest refinery, Salinas Cruz, by around 9 percent or 30,000 barrels per day (bdp) once a $4 billion expansion ...

  • Mexico drug cartel dominates torches western state

    LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — The western Mexico state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror.The Knights Templar cartel is extorting protection from all sorts of businesses, prompting a backlash in the western agricultural state. Some communities ...

  • Coulter When did we vote to become Mexico

    Pre-1965 immigrants were what made this country what it was for a reason: They were the pre-welfare state immigrants. From around 1630 to 1966, immigrants sank or swam. About a third of them couldn’t make it in America and went home — and those are the ones who weren’t rejected right off the boat for being sick, crippled or idiots. That’s why corny stories of ...

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Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne [DVD]

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne [DVD]

Robert Bresson is most often thought of as an uncompromising minimalist, a director whose unique (to some maddening) aesthetic insisted on unprofessional actors, flat dialogue, simple camerawork, and almost no nondiegetic music. His best films, including Diary of a Country Priest (1950), Pickpocket (1959), and, to a lesser extent, Lancelot du Lac (1974), are all masterpieces ... ...

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  • EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico stocks sink to 8-month low on Fed fears

    By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY, May 22 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks plunged to their lowest level in more than eight months on Wednesday, after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed could scale back the pace of bond purchases at one of its "next few meetings." Early in the session, the release of minutes from the last Federal Reserve policy meeting seemed to suggest ...

  • Uninsured Texans Seek Health Care In Mexico As Their Governor Resists Medicaid Expansion

    article from Tuesday shines a light on what, exactly, most Republican governors’ refusal to expand Medicaid will mean for real Americans by examining poor communities in a state headed by one of Obamacare’s most ardent critics: Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX). The piece centers on particularly destitute populations in southern Texas, where some uninsured residents are so poor, sick, and ...

  • Fitch ratifica la calificacion de Atizapan de Zaragoza Estado de Mexico en BBB-

    Fitch: Recession Concern Dampens European Investor Sentiment An increasing number of investors expect fundamental credit conditions will deteriorate across sectors, according to a Fitch Ratings investor survey. The more circumspect sentiment was most notable for the sovereign segment, where the proportion of survey respondents anticipating worsening conditions more than doubled to 55%, from 24% ...

  • Entrenched Mexico drug mafia vigilantes battle for control of agricultural Michoacan state

    In this May 20, 2013 photo, a man on a motorcycle drives past the burnt-out hulks of two trucks and a passenger bus, allegedly torched by the Knights Templar drug cartel as a warning to anyone who tries to bring reinforcements, near the town of Buenavista, Mexico. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in ...

  • Mexicos stocks down 1 pct briefly touch 8-month low

    MEXICO CITY, May 22 (Reuters) - Mexico's IPC stock index briefly sank on Wednesday to an eight-month low beneath the key 40,000-point level for the first time since September 2012. The index dipped to the low after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman ...

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