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...find someone else to run it? Just give me the power. I know that I can do it." After all, she reasoned Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia's ex-president, was a woman, joining the ranks of "Benazir [Bhutto], and Elizabeth, and the woman Madonna played in that movie" - Evita Peron...
...fiction, one of Latin America's greatest writers; of liver cancer; in Geneva. Borges was an original: his poetry was somber and elegaic, his short stories at once fantastical and grittily realistic--most notably the mystery-like ''fictions,'' reminiscent of Kafka and Poe. The 1973 return of Dictator Juan Peron prompted him to resign as director of the National Library in his native Buenos Aires. Far from a handicap, being blind, he said, ''leaves the mind free to explore the depths and heights of human imagination...
...Cristina rally organized by the farmers a week ago in the city of Rosario drew between 200,000 and 300,000 people. That kind of turnout hit a sore spot with the presidential couple. Former President Kirchner tried to denigrate it by comparing it to the rallies against Juan Peron in 1945 - which, though large in number, failed to prevent Peron's rise to power along with his wife Eva, who is still widely revered in Argentina. The farmers scoffed Kirchner's belittling. "Make no mistake," said farm leader Carlos Llambias at the rally, "the ruling couple are no Peron...
...voted for the centrist Carrio, who placed second in the national balloting - and the suburban working class and rural poor who are the traditional Peronist bastions of support. In fact, "Cristina's" campaign reminded many political observers of the tactics of Argentina's most famous and effective politican, Eva Peron, Juan Peron's second wife. Evita's "Rainbow Tour" of Europe in 1947 saw her meeting with the Pope and other European leaders, mesmerizing crowds with her beauty, glamor and brashness. Her supporters back home - the impoverished "shirtless ones" - loved it. Fernandez de Kirchner may have banked on a similar...
...moment, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is basking in her victory. She emphasized what she saw as her "double responsibility" as a politician and as a woman toward her fellow women. She dismissed attempts to compare her husband and herself to the Clintons or her to Eva Peron. "There's nothing better than being yourself...