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...numbers cruncher, Royal Masset, believes Hutchison will defeat Perry and be the next governor of Texas. Polls suggest she has an early lead, and Masset points to her overwhelming victories in the past as evidence of her wide support not only among Republicans but also among independents, who can vote in Texas primaries. He has urged Perry to forgo another gubernatorial bid. Masset believes that Perry should be content with one major accomplishment: helping to create more jobs in Texas than the rest of the U.S. during his tenure. "Your place in history is secure," Masset wrote in a recent...
...capo's traditional bastions of power, such as the regions of Cordoba, Uraba and Choco. "We will see a war," says the former official. "There are more than 1,000 men guarding a whole lot of money." (Should a drug lord be one of the TIME 100? Vote for the most influential people in the world...
...leadership of the party in putting together a winning coalition. This year, Rahul Gandhi is trying to make his mark, with a pledge to democratize the institutions of his party. He has promised that within two years, the youth wing of the Congress Party will choose its leadership by vote rather than by appointment, and he has pledged to increase the number of people under 35 who run for office on Congress tickets. Opening up the Congress Party, he says, will help energize the country and create a more engaged electorate, who will hold their elected officials accountable...
...America's backyard. His backers insist that the Wall Street implosion has vindicated Chávez's rejection of free-market capitalism as the solution for Latin America. And his critics, who call him a neo-Fidel Castro, still have to acknowledge that he's been thrice democratically elected. (Vote on Chávez in the TIME 100 poll...
...According to Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, authorities were then led to Santa Cruz's convention grounds, where they found an arsenal of sharp-shooter rifles, grenades, C-4 explosives and other heavy weaponry. (Is Bolivia's President Evo Morales one of the most influential people in the world? Vote for the TIME...