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...high-ranking government official. "He's a corporate cheerleader more than an administrator." He has proved less than skillful with Congress, where the center-left PRI still has a strong plurality and which last month torpedoed Fox's ambitious $9 billion fiscal-reform plan after he insisted on an unpopular sales tax on food and medicine. That has dampened prospects for other measures dear to investors, such as opening the energy sector to foreign capital and revamping Mexico's ossified labor unions. Though polls show Fox is still popular, "he keeps overestimating the political power of that personal appeal," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help From His Amigo | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

...highlight of the season. Much credit is due to graduate student Brett W. Gamboa for his choice of play; All’s Well is one of the most undeservedly neglected pieces in Shakespeare’s canon. Its unsatisfying resolution and prickly comedy may make it unpopular among directors, but it is a sure delight to audiences...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: ‘All’s Well’ With This Quincy Production | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...highlight of the season. Much credit is due to graduate student Brett W. Gamboa for his choice of play; All’s Well is one of the most undeservedly neglected pieces in Shakespeare’s canon. Its unsatisfying resolution and prickly comedy may make it unpopular among directors, but it is a sure delight to audiences...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, | Title: 'All's Well' With This Quincy Production | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

This confrontation made him unpopular with some students, but Lurie wears this, like his armband, as a badge of courage. Politically, he wears his heart on his sleeve. Outside of the Science Center last week, Lurie bore his defiant message even more explicitly: “If the Harvard Salient is afraid of him, he must be doing something right...

Author: By May Habib and Bari M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Lurie Lobs Political Bombs at Opponents | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...When they found out that I was running, some deans asked if they could support me. I said I thought that might make me unpopular,” Mahan jokes. “Then I suggested that they support my opponents instead...

Author: By Claire G. Friedman and Margaret W. Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Mahan and Blickstead Tout Experience, Endorsements | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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