In this article, Time Magazine describes the reason why not all of Mexico is happy for Carlos Slim, the world’s 2nd richest man according to Forbes Magazine.
The main reason is this quote:
Whereas Gates’ wealth reflects America’s tech leadership, Slim’s riches —despite the sweat and savvy that built them — tend to symbolize Mexico’s archaic system of monopolies and oligopolies, which helps keep almost half the nation’s population in poverty by choking oxygen away from the rest of the economy.
Hopefully, Slim will become more of a philanthropist in the near future, and hopefully, some of the monopolies that he owns will get some competition, causing the economy to improve.
There’s gonna be a conference at the seminary this Thursday about the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The conference is being led by the Presbyterian Seminary, Yale University, and our seminary. They’ll be talking about whether it really happened, variations of the story, etc. All of this stuff is extremely interesting to me. I’m looking forward to it. I’m gonna see if we can record it and post it on our youth ministry website. Add another thing to the to-do list.
Have you ever had so much to do that you didn’t know where to begin? That’s me right now. I have papers to grade, classes to plan, a syllabus to make, and lots of other things. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed, but I know we’ll get it all done.
Here are some pictures from the International CYM Trip from the Spring of 2007. You can click on a picture to view a larger version of it.
