Word: ruffo
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...they can fix what is broken here. Bush met with Fox three times in his first 100 days, blowing away the old once-a-year tradition. Fox dreams of a day when the border will open and his countrymen will no longer flee to survive. As Fox told Ernesto Ruffo, his top aide on the region, "Put holes in the border...
WHITE NIGHTS Opposite page, left to right: Coat by Valentino; vintage Courreges hot pants from Decades; gold-beaded shoes by Celine; dress and zip piece by Helmut Lang; cream bow-tie shoes by Ruffo...
Mexico's northern-border commissioner, Ernesto Ruffo, argues that the time has come to end the "us-vs.-them" talk. Says he: "If we'd quit speaking in Spanish and in English and speak the language of economics, we'd end up understanding each other much better." Fox speaks that language (plus English) well. Only three months away from marking his first year in office, he is trying to cool expectations at home. "The country's fate doesn't rest on a President," he said last week as he urged Mexicans to go beyond their traditional fixation on the leader...
...Summer Olympics, with its windfall of government money and free publicity, and has catapulted itself into the ranks of Europe's favored capitals. "You go to Milan, Paris or Hamburg, and people marvel that Barcelona has become the most dynamic city in Europe," says Jose Maria Marti Ruffo, a London-based Catalan businessman...
...Ruffo victory is nevertheless regarded as a crucial turning point for the seven-month-old presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and a watershed in Mexican politics. Salinas, who took office amid charges that he was elected by fraud, vowed that "opposition victories will be respected." He has led a forceful campaign against corruption by arresting powerful drug lords, businessmen and labor leaders. Yet he is still perceived as someone elected by and for the Establishment. The P.R.I.'s acceptance of defeat in Baja is considered a critical test of Salinas' ability -- and desire -- to enforce reform within...