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...show he cares about poor people in the south, where Tabasco is located. (Many of the devastated houses in the floods were built by squatters on riverbanks and low-lying areas, a problem that has long exacerbated natural disasters across Mexico.) He won last year's election by a razor-thin margin with a largely middle-class support base in the industrial north. His rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a Tabasco native who champions the poor and downtrodden, claims Calderon fixed the election and tours the country calling himself the "legitimate president...
...counties adopted touch-screen as well, and they learned the pitfalls of it the hard way, dealing with controversies like a 2006 congressional race in the Sarasota district, where an astonishing 15% of the ballots cast registered no choice at all - in a race that was decided by a razor-thin margin of 386 votes...
...looking at a 50th-place finish,” Mayer said. “When you start missing putts and hitting errant shots, that can build upon itself and compound into more mistakes. Instead of 72, you’re looking at 78.” But the razor-thin margin of error that any golf team must cope with in tournaments also means that Harvard is closer to its best rounds than this week’s numbers suggest. “If everybody just improves one or two or three strokes per round, we’re definitely...
...whose tenacity at No. 2, 3, or 4 had lifted the squad’s morale throughout the year, succumbed to the leg pain he had battled in previous matches. With the lineup shuffled up just one spot, the Crimson lost its second match of the weekend by a razor-thin margin...
...odds for gaining acceptance to Harvard as a transfer student, already slim, are about to become razor-thin. Having decided to increase the size of the freshman class, the College has announced that, starting in 2011, it will halve the number of transfer student positions it makes available...