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Joaquin Bermeo brought a decisively hip style of voting to last week's remarkable election in Mexico. As a dour procession of villagers strode to the polls in San Andres Calpan, southeast of Mexico City, Bermeo, 21, rode up on a neon-colored bicycle. Wearing a fringed vest and oversize rainbow-colored sunglasses, he swaggered into a booth to mark the first ballot of his life--and step into the vanguard of a democratic revolution. No way, he said, would he vote for the authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico virtually unchallenged since 1929. "Every week...
...that, millions of minds must have leaped 1,000 miles south and two days backward, to where and when Tiger Woods strode up the 18th fairway at Augusta National. It would have been thrilling enough that a 21-year-old had won the Masters or that any golfer had outstripped his competition by 12 strokes, the largest margin of victory in a major tournament in this century. Neither reality seemed as significant, though, as the color of his skin, because almost 50 years to the day that Robinson integrated baseball, Woods became the first nonwhite victor of what was once...
...shorts, as if offering a peek. "I could take you right here, right now," he said. "If you do such a stupid thing, you better kill me, because if I live, I will tell," she said. Hoster scooted to the door, opened it and implored him to leave. He strode to the door, shut it, grabbed her by the waist and lifted her off the floor. "What a nice body you have," he said. After 20 minutes, and half a dozen requests, he finally left...
...been left to its grief. Certainly, the press showed up at the half-year anniversary to cover a memorial service, also attended by Prince Charles, in the small town's 13th century cathedral. But in the months since the March day when a failed youth leader named Thomas Hamilton strode into the Dunblane primary school with four legally owned handguns and began shooting--shooting until 16 children and one teacher were dead and Hamilton had put a bullet in his own head--the British media have observed an informal blackout, so that a terrible nightmare has not been made cheap...
...First Lady strode to the podium at the party convention and proceeded to defend a broad view of family and community, few in the audience were surprised. "When we speak of families," she said, "we mean extended families. We mean the neighbors, even the community itself." Yet this was not Hillary Rodham Clinton's oft-repeated defense of a certain African proverb that by now even the village idiot has heard a few too many times. These words were uttered by Barbara Bush at the far-right, fanatic 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. Four years later, Bob Dole...