Author: Newley

Reuters: “Ecuador’s President Lucio Gutierrez dismissed Education Minister Rosa Maria Torres on Monday, a move that could weaken his fragile coalition because of her close ties to the nation’s powerful Indian movement.”

The New York Times magazine on Peter Olson, chairman and CEO of Random House: “Although he has never edited a book, discovered a writer or masterminded a marketing campaign, Peter Olson is the most powerful man in book publishing.”

This appears to be some sort of strange German graphical online community/art project. “It’s easy at 1, 2, 4…”

“Reading the wrong thing in public can get you in trouble.” Just ask Marc Schultz.

Bolivian Ramiro Blacutt, the coach of our underachieving pro soccer side, Deportivo Cuenca, has resigned.

The accused pedophile, on the run for six years, was shipped back to Miami and will face charges in Tyler, Texas.

The Economist offers a good overview of the Shining Path’s apparent resurgance in Peru.

Authoritarian ex-president Alberto Fujimori (who, it turns out, Peru’s in a hurry to extradite from Japan) crushed the Maoist rebels with brutal force. But current president Alejandro Toledo is seen to have gone soft on rooting them out.

In “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” a new show from Bravo, five gay men make over a straight guy:

“They are the Fab Five: an elite team of gay men dedicated to extolling the simple virtues of style, taste and class. Each week their mission is to transform a style-deficient and culture-deprived straight man from drab to fab in each of their respective categories: fashion, food & wine, interior design, grooming and culture.”

For all my Brooklyn friends (you know who you are), I give you Hipster Bingo! (Related: a cool place to buy good produce in the East Village.)

Michael Smith maintains a good Weblog about Peru.