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...fear that if Mexico doesn't hit the road to real development--especially a higher-wage economy--during Calderón's presidency, the country may face yet another century of Third World malaise. "If he wants to be a relevant President, he has to transform Mexico," says Luis de la Calle, a former trade undersecretary and prominent business consultant...
...desire for the two countries to "think creatively about new programs for job opportunities" that would halt migration at its source, deep inside rural Mexico, instead of at the border. Despite his strong start, Calderón has a lot to prove. "We're still exploring Calderón," De la Calle says, "and I think Calderón is still exploring himself." Mexico's future will be defined by what he finds there...
...oeuvre, its emphasis is squarely on female nudes. In these photographs, Clergue plays alchemist with seemingly endless permutations of his preferred elements—flesh, water, and light. In his most impressive photographs, these three elements harmonize, none taking precedence over the others. In “Nu de la Mer†(1966), water rises tranquilly around the legs and torso of a bather and courses in at her waist, forming a delicate liquid skirt jeweled by streaks of glimmering refractions of the midday sun that fall upon her thighs. In another well balanced print, “Soleil...
Listen to the rhetoric of politicians across Europe and you won't hear the relationship between Poles and their host countries described in such friendly terms. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members back in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from local workers led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to keep their labor markets closed...
...European Grand Tour undertaken by many wealthy and cultured Americans of the time, and the young men moved in expatriate circles that included well-known cultural figures. Writers and modern-art patrons Leo Stein and his sister Gertrude, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, portraitist John Singer Sargent, painter John La Farge, novelist Edith Wharton and British Gothic writer Vernon Lee (the pseudonym of Violet Paget, whom novelist Henry James, himself a frequent visitor to Italy, called "the most intelligent person in Florence") all clustered in the Tuscan town...