Word: quiroga
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...Beatriz Quiroga-Mueller...
...vote also threatens to tear the country apart. If no candidate wins more than 50% at the polls, a president must be chosen by Congress, where Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will likely have less clout than the parties of his more conservative rivals such as Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, a former President and IBM executive who currently trails Morales by some six percentage points in recent polls. So Morales - a 46-year-old Aymara Indian farmer who leads Bolivia's coca growers union and narrowly lost the Presidency in 2002 - could win this Sunday but still be snubbed...
...Eileen Naughton, president of TIME, and I joined forces with the U.N. Foundation to host a panel in New York City for the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, an initiative of UNAIDS. Four extraordinary women--Frika Chia Iskandar of Indonesia, Princess Kasune Zulu of Zambia, Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga of Bolivia and Michaelle Soliman of Haiti--spoke eloquently of their efforts to combat AIDS in their countries. This November TIME and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plan to hold a Global Health Summit in New York City, bringing together medical experts, politicians and business leaders to discuss...
Stipends of $10,000 were awarded to the new Goldsmith Fellows, Alison Carper of New York Newaday and Jorge Quiroga of WCVB-TV, Channel 5, Boston, to study at the Barone Center for a year...
When we arrived to the ground floor, one of the fascists recognized Marcelo Quiroga and ordered that the others move on and that Quiroga be led to another room. Obviously, they had orders to kill him then and there, and wanted to do it without witnesses. Marcelo objected to being separated and grabbed the banister. It took two men to pull him away, but as they were doing so, another shot Quiroga at point black range in the chest with a submachine...