Mr Hastings excessively admires two German field-marshals: Gerd von Rundstedt and Eric von Manstein, whereas only Bill Slim and George Patton rise above the general mediocrity of Allied field commanders.
Playing in front of thousands of people and sharing the bill with Fatboy Slim, The Killers and Lady GaGa has its own substantial merits, but Underline the Sky hope the festival will act as a springboard for further delights.
Carlos Slim and Bill Gates are working together to fight poverty in Mexico and Central America.
Why would Slim praise a bill that seems against his business interests?
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It was the first time Slim personally addressed the bill since it was proposed on March 11.
Most countries plan to slim the government wage bill and reduce entitlements the sorts of cuts that are least damaging to economic recovery.
As part of the annual Billionaires list, Forbes reported yesterday that Carlo Slim Helu edged out Bill Gates as the richest person in the world.
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According to one participant, Slim is footing the bill for the whole event, which includes a trip in private planes to the Mexican coastal resort town of Ixtapa on Saturday afternoon.
Well, for starters, it would make Mubarak the second richest person in the world, right behind Carlos Slim and way ahead of Bill Gates.
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According to the preliminary program, there's a lecture on Mexican pre-Hispanic civilizations and a talk by Slim himself on the restoration of Mexico City's historical center--for which Slim has been reportedly footing the bill.
The big news this week amongst the 50 international billionaires whose wealth Forbes tracks in real time was that Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates officially overtook Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim Helu as the richest man on the planet.
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Look at the market value of internet franchises like Facebook, Google and Baidu, not that their headmen collect art early on, but sooner or later they turn out sometime collectors like Bill Gates, but not the media honcho of Mexico, Carlos Slim, who works hard giving away his wealth.
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His proposed climate-change bill, whose chances of becoming law before the mid-terms look slim, would be much improved if boondoggles were removed from it.
Videgaray rejected suggestions that the government negotiated with Mexican telecom Tycoon Carlos Slim, or had given him a heads up prior to the unveiling of the telecom bill in January.
But in a dramatic turn on May 8th a state Senate-approved bill to that effect died without a full vote in the Colorado House of Representatives, which holds a slim 33-22 Republican majority.
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