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...Friday. It's also wrestling with questions about what, if anything, it could have done to curtail the crisis more swiftly and effectively. On the one hand, Mexico's response has been largely effective: measures taken by President Felipe Calderon and his health officials, as well as Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, appear to have stabilized the outbreak. Those measures included the closure of all but the most essential businesses and government services Friday through Tuesday, the nation's long Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend. On Thursday, for example, the government reported that the daily number of new suspected cases...
...second floor of the Hong Kong restaurant was packed with college students last night, but there were no scorpion bowls in sight. Instead, young people gathered for “College Night with Sam Yoon,” a Kennedy School graduate now running for mayor of Boston. “College students are a vital part of our city, and too often they’re overlooked,” Yoon said. “They’re seen as second class citizens.” In a speech at the event, he appealed to students to join...
...good news is, it was nothing more than an inconsiderate, badly conceived and insensitive photo op with the taxpayers' money.' New York City Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, after one of President Obama's Air Force One planes--escorted by two fighter jets--caused panic in downtown New York during a low-flying photo shoot...
...struggling now with a bloody drug war and an economic downturn, is second. The leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), which came within a half-percentage point of winning the presidency in 2006, is a distant third. If Calderon's federal government, and the Mexico City administration of PRD Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, don't contain this epidemic to Mexicans' satisfaction, the PRI may position itself this summer to regain the presidency in 2012. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...announcements about restaurants, Ebrard said that if the number of sick rises drastically, he will consider still harder methods such as shutting down the subway system - a move that would really send shockwaves through the economic backbone of the capital. "We need to work together and be responsible," the mayor said. "We are going to defeat this challenge as we have done with all the other difficulties that our city has faced...