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...dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which ruled Mexico from 1929 until 2000. The elder Calderón left the P.A.N. in the 1980s because he felt it had abandoned its Roman Catholic ideals of social justice for a narrower pro-business ideology. Felipe was relatively obscure until 2005, when he upset the P.A.N.'s anointed candidate to win the party's 2006 presidential nomination. He later overcame a double-digit deficit to defeat López Obrador. "Calderón is an up-by-the-bootstraps story and has always gone against the odds," says political analyst Federico Estévez of the Autonomous...
...bank of microphones in an aqua blue windbreaker, Collins mused on how he would feel if, after he and the other jurors put so much thought in this verdict, it was all wiped away by a White House pardon. "If Bush pardons Libby, I wouldn't be upset a bit," he said, "I don't have any anger or spite about Mr. Libby. I just don't think that...
Grigg reached the finals in her sophomore and junior years but was upset each time, coming away with the second-place trophy both times. Similarly, Suchde nearly claimed the title last year but fell short to four-time champion Yassar El Halaby...
...seeded Baset Ashfaq of Trinity from the field with a decisive three-game win in his own semifinal. Ashfaq had eliminated Harvard senior Garnett Booth in the second round. Sophomore Verdi DiSesa was granted the top seed in the “B†draw, but was upset by Bill Hatch of Yale in the Round of 16. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Vincent R. Oletu can be reached at voletu@fas.harvard.edu...
Coming off a weekend performance in which he scored a combined 56 points, including 32 in an upset of Cornell Saturday night, Harvard men’s basketball captain Jim Goffredo has been named the Ivy League Player of the week...