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Mexico's next president will be chosen by the country's electoral tribunal, and he will carry the mandate not of the majority, but of the largest minority. Right now, the provisional result gives the job to Felipe Calderón of the ruling conservative National Action Party, by a margin 243,934 out of 70 million registered voters (0.58%). Calderón is doing his best to talk and act as a president-elect, but the alliance backing the center-left candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claims its man won but the counting was crooked...
...electoral tribunal could simply ratify the provisional results it released earlier, and name Calderón as winner. That would be legal, but might lack legitimacy in the eyes of much of the population, whose skepticism is fueled by a longstanding tradition of electoral fraud. Calderón would therefore take office under the shadow of suspicion, and might struggle to find the support necessary to govern effectively from a congress in which he lacks a majority. Also, Obrador's supporters have taken to the street in the hundreds of thousands, and appear in no mood to accept a defeat...
Viewed from a certain angle, the Alexander Calder--designed stabile resembles an elephant; viewed from any angle, an Ellie is the most prestigious prize that a magazine...
...Noguchi sculpture, a Marc Newson sketch and a swatch of gray fabric from a chair in his house. "I'm noticing more organic shapes and more black and white than color right now," he says, flipping through an auction catalog filled with works by American artists like Alexander Calder and Robert Motherwell...
...heart of the Tod's empire (which also includes 103 stores around the world) is the $60 million Richard Meier--esque white marble factory designed by Diego's wife Barbara and filled with art by Jacob Hashimoto, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. One wing is dominated by a Ron Arad silver staircase called The Wave. Inside, 2,500 workers?50% of whom are second-generation employees?turn out an average of 15,000 shoes a day. Their kids go to nursery school on the premises, and the workers eat freshly cooked meals in the cafeteria...