Word: panning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...week, there was little news - about his estate, the toxicology tests, his final moments - so the talk became about how little news there was. There were the prime-time specials, the morning-show reports, the commentators and endless clichés. (He was a barrier breaker, a chameleon, a Peter Pan - I've used some of those myself...
...know the details of treaty-port life inside out, but those hoping to catch See slipping up will be frustrated. She has done her homework - and provides a closing note that helps readers know where to turn to learn more, like to the scholarly yet accessible works of Lynn Pan...
...belong to a family that traditionally votes PAN, but this party became too pragmatic," says Beatriz Jarquin, 28, a voter in the impoverished southern state of Oaxaca who voted PRI on Sunday. "These years have not given us the change we wanted." Moreover, the PAN ran an attack campaign against the PRI that recalled for many voters the ugliness of the PRI's own traditional tactics. "It was very dirty and belligerent," says Mexican pollster Federico Berrueto. "The PAN needs to go back to its origins...
...PAN, like Mexico, may simply be experiencing the same democratic growing pains that hit Eastern Europe a decade ago. In countries such as Poland, democracy's early disappointments brought former communists back to power in the 1990s. But they couldn't bring back communism; and it's just as unlikely that the PRI, even if it does recapture the presidency three years from now, could ever revive the authoritarian monolith that once suffocated Mexico...
While Mexico's midterm malaise has definitely bruised the PAN, Calderon may still be able to salvage enough personal popularity to forestall the early onset of lame-duck status. But he has a sierra-full of voter disillusionment to overcome: this year's election may be best known for the campaign waged by democracy activists urging voters to cast blank "nulo" or "none" votes as a way to register their disgust with Mexico's politicos. After the election, Calderon asked Mexicans to "put the race behind us" and "focus all our efforts on finding common ground." But Mexicans made...