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Kennedy School graduate Felipé Calderón Hinojosa was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, dispatching the leftist former mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, after a tight race that was too-close-to-call until the official count was finished yesterday...
Poire—who served on a panel studying the election with Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez—said that Lopez Obrador’s credentials on democracy were “ambiguous” because as mayor of Mexico City he at times ignored the mandates of the local legislature, challenged the authority of the Mexican Supreme Court, and obstructed the operations of the renowned international anti-graft organization, Transparency International. But he hastened to add that comparing Lopez Obrador to Chavez is unfair—the former was not a military general...
...part of? a century under one-party rule, is a traditionally conservative country. The Harvard-educated Calder?n, 43, who appears to have garnered about 36% of the vote, campaigned on promises to stay the course of Mexico's modest market-driven economic growth. But L?pez Obrador, 52, the former mayor of Mexico City, narrowly led voter polls going into last weekend's election because he insisted that the nation's economic gains have only served large monopolies, and the grinding poverty that afflicts half of?Mexicans forces them to cross illegally into the U.S. in search of real jobs...
Rappaport announced his gift, which creates a permanent endowment for the institute that bears his name, at Boston City Hall. Outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino were present, along with members of Rappaport’s family...
...resolution on the Nov. 7 ballot calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached. After all, 74,000 voters of what is often referred to as The People's Republic of Berkeley can't legally oust the President and Vice President. But Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates thinks his city is simply ahead of its time, as it has often proved to be in the past...