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...than 400,000 votes (about 1% of the total) separate the leader, Felipe Calder?n of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), and Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Federal election authorities call that margin too thin to announce a winner before a more detailed count can be completed - but both Calder?n and L?pez Obrador wasted no time last night declaring victory. "We won the election without a doubt," Calder?n told his supporters near midnight, while L?pez Obrador went so far as to assure backers that his camp's own vote tallies indicated a PRD ?triumph...
...Critics, especially in the PRD, insist that Mexican election officials could have resolved the count as early as Monday morning without throwing the nation - and the financial markets - into days of uncertainty. But those authorities appear more overwhelmed than crooked. Mexico is still a fledgling democracy at best. And whoever does come out the winner this week will have nothing even remotely resembling a mandate. With the Congress looking more or less evenly divided between the PAN, PRD and PRI, turning any presidential agenda into law will be as precarious as a Mexican migrant's trek through the Arizona desert...
...poverty, civil war and terror? Under blatantly false and illegal pretenses, the U.S. invaded a country that had not attacked it or its allies. About 40,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, not to mention untold thousands of Iraqi conscript soldiers; the Americans are too arrogant to even keep count, publishing only their own fatalities. The reference to the "liberator" would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. Nils Wetterlind Singapore...
...lofty goals are just posturing. The state's record on education and children's well-being, after all, isn't much to brag about. The state has some of the top public schools in the country, but ranks near last overall in education funding. And while the group Kids Count reported this week that Illinois shot up from near bottom of its annual well-being ranking of states' children, the state still languishes in the middle of the pack at 24th. Too many kids still live in poverty or are from families with no working parents, even as infant mortality...
...poverty, civil war and terror? Under blatantly false and illegal pretenses, the U.S. invaded a country that had not attacked it or its allies. About 40,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, not to mention untold thousands of Iraqi conscript soldiers; the Americans are too arrogant to even keep count, publishing only their own fatalities. The reference to the "liberator" would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. Nils Wetterlind Singapore The investigation of the Haditha incident should also include the actions of Iraqis. Those killed may have watched as an explosive device was planted along the road...