"Hours later, I realized that my trip will actually come a month and 2 days after my trip."
Maybe true. But your trip (at the end of May) will come right after the second elections ('ballotage', the argentine run-off election). If Menem works fast, maybe the dollar will be 1-1 by then? Better buy some pesos, just in case :)
[submitted on 26 Apr 03]
Hmm, i don't think so either. But lots of people do, whatever that means.
And if he wins there will be some very upset people. In argentina, when there are lots of upset people they tend to do things.
Incidentally, lots of people are calling all the campaign polls (the recent ones putting him in front), as many of the pollsters are paid by various candidates. One source said he suspects the polls at least try to be moderately accurate only -just before- the elections, so they keep some amount of legitimacy. So maybe the recent polls are right? We'll find out sunday, i guess.
[submitted on 26 Apr 03]
RC
LISTEN:
Jeremias has come unstuck in time.
I've never thought of Mr. JP as the Billy Pilgrim type. Trafalmagorian, maybe. Are you really shaped like a Coke bottle?
And you all got a page for this year's Bridgefest? I wanna write a ditty for it like I did last year. I'm in a writin' mood. Not that you'd know that from the long list of homework I'm not doing.
[submitted on 28 Apr 03]
Matias
GLAMOUR AND CHAOS MERGE IN BUENOS AIRES
By MICHAEL T. LUONGO
THE NEW YORK TIMES
April 29, 2003
Buenos Aires has long been considered a city that does not know where it is. It consciously rebuilt itself at the turn of the last century in the image of Paris. Walking along the Avenida de Mayo, lined with Belle Époque buildings, you would think you were in France. Adding to the confusion are young fashion plates who seem to have spacewarped from Milan.
But under the glamour is the chaos. William Palau moved from London to become an accounts manager for the British-Argentine technology company Rower International. "The taxis drive like crazy here," he said. "Where there are three painted lines, in London there are three cars. Here, there are seven."
Business has also been chaotic since the December 2001 devaluation of the peso. Once equal to the dollar, the peso is a third of its former value, hurting profits but aiding exports like grain, beef and leather. Buenos Aires is also a regional insurance and financial services center.
Despite recession, international tensions and fears of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the city is in the midst of a tourism boom that fills restaurants, cafes and tango halls with gawking foreigners.
You can read the full story on http://www.nytimes.com/2003...[submitted on 29 Apr 03]
"Hours later, I realized that my trip will actually come a month and 2 days after my trip."
Maybe true. But your trip (at the end of May) will come right after the second elections ('ballotage', the argentine run-off election). If Menem works fast, maybe the dollar will be 1-1 by then? Better buy some pesos, just in case :) [submitted on 26 Apr 03]
And if he wins there will be some very upset people. In argentina, when there are lots of upset people they tend to do things.
Incidentally, lots of people are calling all the campaign polls (the recent ones putting him in front), as many of the pollsters are paid by various candidates. One source said he suspects the polls at least try to be moderately accurate only -just before- the elections, so they keep some amount of legitimacy. So maybe the recent polls are right? We'll find out sunday, i guess. [submitted on 26 Apr 03]
Jeremias has come unstuck in time.
I've never thought of Mr. JP as the Billy Pilgrim type. Trafalmagorian, maybe. Are you really shaped like a Coke bottle?
And you all got a page for this year's Bridgefest? I wanna write a ditty for it like I did last year. I'm in a writin' mood. Not that you'd know that from the long list of homework I'm not doing. [submitted on 28 Apr 03]
By MICHAEL T. LUONGO
THE NEW YORK TIMES
April 29, 2003
Buenos Aires has long been considered a city that does not know where it is. It consciously rebuilt itself at the turn of the last century in the image of Paris. Walking along the Avenida de Mayo, lined with Belle Époque buildings, you would think you were in France. Adding to the confusion are young fashion plates who seem to have spacewarped from Milan.
But under the glamour is the chaos. William Palau moved from London to become an accounts manager for the British-Argentine technology company Rower International. "The taxis drive like crazy here," he said. "Where there are three painted lines, in London there are three cars. Here, there are seven."
Business has also been chaotic since the December 2001 devaluation of the peso. Once equal to the dollar, the peso is a third of its former value, hurting profits but aiding exports like grain, beef and leather. Buenos Aires is also a regional insurance and financial services center.
Despite recession, international tensions and fears of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the city is in the midst of a tourism boom that fills restaurants, cafes and tango halls with gawking foreigners.
You can read the full story on http://www.nytimes.com/2003... [submitted on 29 Apr 03]