terça-feira, agosto 17, 2004

O livro de cabeceira de...

... Francisco Louçã: "The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group", Dan Briody.

Uns excertos da "Amazon.co.uk Review":
[...]award-winning journalist Dan Briody blows the lid off this secretive corporation and its ties to power and military might.
The history of Carlyle is one of «dubious investments, seemingly crooked kickbacks, and near-miss scandals, any of which, had they hit their mark, could have brought Carlyle crashing back down to earth».
But nothing has stuck to this company, whether it involved pork-filled defence contracts, CIA cover-ups, or shady mercenaries operating in foreign countries. Nothing until this book, that is."
Yeah! Until this book, that is...
# Lançado por PSA às 5:38:00 da tarde
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)