Once the meat is crisp and the fat is rendered, transfer the bacon to a plate and keep the fat in the pan.

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Brazil's professional football clubs are in fact departments of social clubs, whose amateur administrators often make a fat illicit living from the transfer fees paid for their stars by foreign clubs.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Mr Lerach's introduction of corporate-governance reforms into settlements helps him win round conservative judges (who, because settlements usually transfer funds from a company, already owned by its shareholders, to the same shareholders, minus fat legal fees, have tended to see shareholder suits as a negative-sum game).

ECONOMIST: Face value