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...world, boosters claim. More important, it's free. Tens of thousands of eager Mexico City residents have turned out to glide, slide and stumble on the ice for the first time in their lives. "This is really great, especially for the kids," says Lopez. "At least the mayor is giving something back to the people. Most of our governors give us nothing." The rink is part of Mayor Marcelo Ebrard's campaign to make this polluted mountain capital a more pleasant environment. Last spring he shipped in tons of sand to create four urban beaches, which were also...
...Veruca Salt. Romney is definitely the most blue-blooded and aristocratic of all candidates, and has shown a penchant for flip-flopping as the political wind changes, just as the greedy Veruca constantly changed her mind about what she wanted. The loud, brash, and hypercompetitive former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani most resembles Violet Beauregaurde. Consistently exaggerating his record when talking about “cleaning up New York City” and obsessively mentioning 9/11 in nearly every speech, his pride mirrors Violet’s, who embellished her own accomplishments in the hopes of intimidating the other...
...Being mayor of Mexico City is a traditional apprenticeship for presidential candidates of Ebrard's leftist Democratic Revolution Party. But after a year in office, Ebrard shows no sign of becoming his party's anointed champion. He is constantly overshadowed by his mentor and predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who gained immense popularity with pension schemes for the poor and construction projects for the middle class. Lopez Obrador lost the 2006 presidential race to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than 0.5 percent of the vote in an election that was decided in the courts. The charismatic silver-haired leftist claims...
...rink has been an incredible success," the mayor recently told reporters. "Look how may people have come." He promised to open two more free ice rinks on the outskirts of the city, claiming that the project would also raise the level of Mexican contestants in figure skating tournaments. U.S. and Canadian skating champions whizzed round the rink at its opening, while a German team performed a choreography from Grease to applause from some 60,000 spectators...
...political analyst Federico Estevez said that Ebrard's ice rinks and beaches are camouflage for a mayor with no significant policies. "You can't fool the middle class that they are in Rockefeller Center," Estevez said. "Where is the policy here? How about trying to attract some investment...