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...message is so far winning out. Polls show him ahead of Hsieh by double digits. A big reason is Ma himself. The former Taipei mayor and triathlon competitor has become the new face of the new KMT. Born in Hong Kong, Ma arrived in Taiwan as a 1-year-old and, after studying in the U.S., held a long list of posts in KMT governments, including Justice Minister. While campaigning, Ma is often received more like a touring pop star than a politician. "Look at how the ladies react," comments one aide as Ma departs from a rally to greet...
...approval ratings plummeted after his election; it didn't help that not long after becoming governor, Spitzer said to the Republican leader in the state assembly, "I'm a f______ steamroller, and I'll roll over you." Or that when he had a policy dispute with the popular mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Spitzer grandiosely said, "[Bloomberg] is wrong at every level - dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong...
...burning pursuit of right justified any personal failings - his boorishness, the overweening use of his offices and, one presumes, his philandering. "I think he felt he was totally invulnerable and could do whatever he wanted and there would be no consequences," says Ed Koch, a former New York City mayor who considers himself a friend of Spitzer...
...this new, shiny handset showing your ballot marked for the right candidate. The phones, which are worth about $75 apiece, are even conveniently set up to snap the pictures silently. The fluctuating value of a vote seems to have returned to its level in the 1950s, when the businessman-mayor of Naples, Achille Lauro, offered packs of pasta and a new left shoe before an election. The right shoe could be collected afterward upon proof that the correct choice had been made...
...recent court decision that determined he was not a mafioso, even while finding that he had done favors for a noted Mob boss. In this febrile environment, Berlusconi is again seeking the Prime Minister's office, while Prodi has been replaced as the center-left candidate by former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni. This will be the first election for Veltroni's Democratic Party, and it should take to heart the lesson Prodi missed: that it must tackle the Mob head...