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...whose platform focuses on the poor, is the heavy favorite to win Mexico?s July 2 presidential election. L?pez has not been shy about suggesting that Mexico may need to renegotiate NAFTA, especially with regard to U.S. agriculture subsidies, a prospect that alarms the Bush Administration. In a recent stump speech, L?pez called unabated Mexican migration "proof of the Mexican economic failure" in the NAFTA era, and he called for a "new cooperation accord with the U.S." to address Mexico?s development...
Clinton remains a strong performer on the stump who has nonetheless been known to misread a crowd sometimes as thoroughly as her husband was known to work one. At a glitzy Kennedy Center event on AIDS last fall, she harangued an audience already deeply engaged with the epidemic with an awkward demand that they do even more. After an almost flawless 2005, when she emerged as the party's most sought-after spokesman, she has seemed to stumble a bit this year. She attracted a little more attention than she intended when she likened the G.O.P.-controlled House of Representatives...
...million viewers in Britain?40% of its total TV audience?and millions more around the world. The easing of political tension between India and Pakistan has also allowed the two great South Asian rivals to play each other three times since 2004. Technology has played a part, too. Stump-mounted mini-cameras, computer graphics to predict a ball's trajectory and touch screens that allow commentators to write their analysis across the picture have made cricket one of the flashier sports on TV. Speed says even the length of the games?Test matches between national sides can take five days...
...Both Greenfield and Kaja said they resigned in order to devote more time to the Student Affairs Committee (SAC), of which Greenfield is a vice-chair. Blake M. Kurisu ’07 was elected treasurer and Magdey A. Abdallah ’07 was elected secretary. In his stump speech, Abdallah made revamping the UC’s website his top priority. “I want to invest in a website that changes the way the UC interacts with the student body,” he said. A $15,000 allocation to revamp the website last semester...
...think the archive is an unbelievable resource for anyone who cares about the politics or the history of the past 25 years,” Ruben said. “It’s amazing hearing Bill Clinton give his stump speech in ’91. I’m a history concentrator and I love hearing the original sources...