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...campaign. Mexico, which until 2000 had lived for the better 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...
...with something to appeal to the frugal and the foodie. Leahy perfected the art of pulling in customers with Tesco's low-cost reputation and then selling them high-margin nonfood items like TVs and home furnishings. And he has successfully developed both mammoth one-stop stores and more modest convenience shops. The strategy has left rivals playing catch-up: Tesco boasts a 31% slice of the British grocery market, according to research firm TNS Worldpanel. Running a distant second, with 16%, is ASDA, owned by Wal-Mart...
...dissent and condoned the killings of journalists and leftist leaders. Arroyo has denied the charges and her allies in Congress defeated the previous impeachment effort, but the President remains badly bruised. A March poll found that just 29% of respondents were satisfied with her performance. The economy, though showing modest gains in recent months, is still shaky and too dependent on the $10 billion or so a year in remittances from Filipinos who have ventured abroad in search of better opportunities. Says John Forbes, an official with the American Chamber of Commerce: "The best description for the economy is quicksand...
...talk money. Money helps, a lot - but a relatively small amount of money goes a long way. If this couple will earn a modest $50,000 as a family, their odds of seeing their 15th anniversary jump to 68%. By and large, well-off couples divorce over personality conflicts while poorer couples divorce over alcoholism, physical abuse, and money problems. (Infidelity is a frequent deal-breaker, rich or poor...
...gone quite that far, but the world-saving impulse that is TR's most unappealing legacy inspires him even so. "Small-government" conservatives - which is to say, conservatives - wish he'd find another 20th century Republican hero. He might want to investigate Calvin Coolidge, whose own conservatism was more modest, more peaceable, and - by the way - more popular. If the president insists, he can even call...