T-shirts made in El Salvador, possibly in a sweat shop.

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"There is an image of a great power that doesn't take any risks, " said el-Baz, adding Egypt itself was under tremendous pressure because of what he called U.S. trepidation to get heavily involved in the conflict.

CNN: El-Baz

Anti-Nafta rhetoric doesn't play well in El Paso, San Antonio and Houston, which have become gateway cities for commerce with Latin America and have flourished since the North American Free Trade Agreement passed Congress in 1993.

WSJ: Texas v. Ohio

Tapping former Stanford endowment staffer Mark Taborsky (an "important hire, " El-Erian would later write in a book), El-Erian also took money from hedge funds he didn't like and redirected it to ones he thought were winners, putting hundreds of millions into funds in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

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Adding more ambiguity to the speculative fire, ASUS' Chairman Jonney Shih recently confirmed to Forbes that an updated Transformer is on its way, saying only that it'd be very "impressive, " and would be available before CES. Jonney didn't comment on the upcoming slate's supposed use of NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El, but with the chip's promised August launch date, we wouldn't rule it out.

ENGADGET: ASUS' next gen Eee Pad Transformer to pack NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El, launch this October?

But don't tell that to Randi Weingarten, the teachers union el supremo, who is trying to strong-arm pension trustees not to invest in hedge funds or private-equity funds that support education reform.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Randi Weingarten's Pension Veto