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...best-case scenario for George Reeves would have been a car dealership in the San Fernando Valley. You know, one of those gigs where he could have donned an old Superman cape and done silly commercials - once all the rage on late-night TV in Southern California - in which he promised to make fabulous trade-ins faster than a speeding bullet...
...much a part of Brazilian life as exquisitely skilled soccer stars, carnival queens and scantily clad beach babes. One post-war politician in Sao Paulo state won three terms as mayor and governor with the dubious endorsement that "he steals, but he gets things done." Former president Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached in 1992 over a corruption scandal, and in 2001 it was revealed that fraudsters had bled an astonishing $2 billion from two government agencies established to help the country's poor...
...Lula, the odds-on favorite, is leading only because he has given large handouts to the country's poor. Even many of his supporters say they will vote for their erstwhile great hope with a heavy heart. "There are no messiahs any more," says former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. "People don't believe there is anyone who can change the system and so they think it's not worth voting. The campaign to annul the vote is one of desperation...
Chambers is a finalist. Among the others are Martha Rollins, 63, of Richmond, Va., who runs a furniture store and café staffed by ex-convicts; June Simmons, 64, of San Fernando, Calif., whose nonprofit trains social workers to cut down on life-threatening errors in their care of the elderly; and Charles Dey, 75, of Lyme, Conn., who places high school students who have disabilities in paid internships that provide a workplace mentor. Chambers hopes to use any prize money to expand his New England auto-loan operation across the U.S. If more folks can afford to get to work...
...amount of criticism by the opposition (including the Liberal Party candidate Horacio Serpa), policy setbacks or even corruption scandals that have tainted his administration appear to have seriously damaged Uribe's mass appeal. "Nothing seems to affect his popularity, neither the good nor the bad," said political analyst Fernando Cepeda. "What determines his popularity is the overriding perception that he is a man who kills himself working and he's doing the best...