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...sleepy as they were preordained, the product of 71 years of one-party rule that ended in 2000. But when Mexicans go to the polls on July 2, few will gripe that this campaign has been too quiet. The front runner, former Mexico City Mayor Andrs Manuel L??pez Obrador, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, has turned his rallies into carnival-style events, with supporters tossing marigold garlands around his neck and hoisting cages with squawking chachalaca birds that wear his opponents' names. To a raucous throng last week in Puebla, south of Mexico City, L??pez pledged...
...sound like populist theatrics, but it's working: polls show L??pez with a slight lead over Felipe Caldern, of the conservative National Action Party. (By law, President Vicente Fox cannot run again.) And it highlights the issue driving this election--one that may have an impact on Americans as well as on the campesinos in Puebla. Mexico's economy is still in the clutches of Big Business barons, who often pay subsistence wages, hog bank credit and investment capital and choke financial oxygen from the medium-size and small businesses that employ two-thirds of Mexico's workers...
...teenager: in the course of a two-hour interview, she used like more than 200 times, as in, "I think all the diet stuff is, like, crazy." But Goin has roused the L.A. food scene with her restaurants Lucques and A.O.C. (which stands for appellation d'origine contrl??e, a French guarantee that a product was made in a certain area). Last month Goin was named best chef in California by the distinguished James Beard Foundation, which also named her 2005 book, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, best professional cookbook...
...when hemade The 400 Blows--an instant astonishment that set the French New Wave in motion--Franois Truffaut had no idea of following his little hero, a 14-year-old played by Jean-Pierre L??aud, through 20 more years of seriocomic escapades. But the end of that film, a freeze-frame of Antoine on a beach, left Truffaut and his audiences asking, What next? The callow charisma of young L??aud also begged to be used again. What followed was a lovely short film (Antoine and Colette) and three features (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love...
Under the subject heading “Who’s pulling an all-nighter in Lamont tonight??” the previously defunct “FMspeak-l?? internal mailing list experienced nothing short of a renaissance this past Sunday and Monday, attracting posts from FM staffers...