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...Action Party (28 percent) and third-place Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Democratic Revolution Party (16 percent) said they suspected the official vote totals were off because of a shortage of absentee ballots and scattered irregularities. Cardenas, who lost the 1988 election to the P.R.I.'s Carlos Salinas de Gortari, drew at least 20,000 people to a central Mexico City square on Monday to protest an election he called "a colossal fraud." He plans another rally Saturday...
...movies. In '50s film, that looked revolutionary. Today it just looks brilliant. Dean was important not only for what he represented but also for what he achieved: a delicacy that grounded his anger, a supple craft forged at the Actors Studio and on live TV dramas, a charisma that drew all eyes to him and the characters he created...
...Executive Order decrying racial disparities in the application of the death penalty in federal prosecutions. Attorney General Janet Reno also pledged to take steps to rectify such imbalances. None of this, however, applies to the states, which mete out the bulk of capital sentences. While the Administration's efforts drew all but 10 of the 39 House members of the caucus back into the fold, it wasn't enough...
...Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had ruled the sport with an iron fist in the '20s and '30s. Young Landis convened the warring parties in the Who-Needs- a-Commissioner's Office in Manhattan and presented each with a baseball cap full of paper slips. For the players, Donald Fehr drew a slip reading "No Salary Arbitration." For the owners, Richard Ravitch pulled out a note saying "This is the only cap you get," thus dispensing with the proposed salary ceiling. The season resumed the following day. The players agreed to make up the games lost during the strike...
These ideas strike local skeptics as overly ambitious and doomed to fail. "Just wait until the mosquitoes start bitin', and see how many tourists you get," scoffs Wyly. Emmanuel Osagie, the Southern University economist who drew up the proposal, believes that such objections are beside the point. "I don't think that in an area like this you can raise people's expectations too high," he says. "We know that the empowerment zone won't solve all our problems, but it can be a start. The problem here is to get people to believe that things can really get better...