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...Fernandez de Kirchner's triumph is certainly historic. She has become the first woman elected President of Argentina, though not its first woman President. Vice-President Isabel Peron assumed the office in 1974 following the death of her husband Juan Peron. (She is currently in Spain fighting extradition to Argentina on charges related to death squad activities.) And Fernandez de Kirchner will get to continue the policies of her popular husband Nestor Kirchner, who is credited with saving Argentina from a profound financial crisis. Indeed, the couple's supporters in their Peronist Party believe there is more history...
...most famous and effective politican, Eva Peron, Juan Peron's second wife. Evita's "Rainbow Tour" of Europe in 1947 saw her meeting with the Pope and other European leaders, mesmerizing crowds with her beauty, glamor and brashness. Her supporters back home - the impoverished "shirtless ones" - loved it. Fernandez de Kirchner may have banked on a similar adulation when, at the tail end of her campaign, she flew to New York, Washington, Paris, Germany and Latin American capitals to be photographed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton. All the while, Argentine media followed every...
...woman won the vote in the big Argentine cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario - but she wasn't the country's president-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Elisa Carrio, presidential candidate of the Civic Coalition, who took 23% of the national vote to come in second, trounced Argentina's Senator and First Lady in the capital and other middle-class strongholds. That may explain the relatively low-key victory speech that the new Presidenta delivered at her campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires. The usually fiery "Cristina," as she is universally known in Argentina, said her huge popular victory...
...ever envision becoming so prolific a builder of latrines? -Ricardo Fernandez, Orland Park, Ill. [Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel...
...seems to me that she was acknowledging the President of Iran, and it was he who ignored her. Did Ms. Gibbs expect Mrs. Bush to give Ahmadinejad a hug? If the President of Iran were a gentleman, he would have stood in the presence of the lady. Maria Fernandez, Boca Raton...