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...this Oscar winner introduced the mass audience to the marriage of serious dance (Jerome Robbins') and serious music (Leonard Bernstein's). The way to see it, if not on the big screen, is in this two-disc MGM set that includes reminiscences of those baby Jets and Sharks, now in their...
...after Sunday's balloting, fewer than 400,000 votes (about 1% of the total) separate the leader, Felipe Calder?n of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), and Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Federal election authorities call that margin too thin to announce a winner before a more detailed count can be completed - but both Calder?n and L?pez Obrador wasted no time last night declaring victory. "We won the election without a doubt," Calder?n told his supporters near midnight, while L?pez Obrador went so far as to assure backers that his camp's own vote...
...candidates' chest-thumping could portend a protracted legal battle - like the one north of the border in 2000 - or even more disruptive political unrest once officials do report a winner. But the electoral crisis also drives home the deep conflict over? Mexico's economic future, which had been the?most passionate issue of the campaign. Mexico, which until 2000 had lived for the better part of? a century under one-party rule, is a traditionally conservative country. The Harvard-educated Calder?n, 43, who appears to have garnered about 36% of the vote, campaigned on promises to stay the course...
...many in the L?pez Obrador camp, the delay brings back the specter of the 1988 presidential election, when the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was declared the winner over the PRD candidate after a suspicious ?breakdown? of vote-tallying computers. Most Mexicans today believe a massive fraud was committed that year, and documents recently revealed largely bear that out. So, because L?pez Obrador's campaign challenged powerful economic interests - and because Calder?n's campaign painted L?pez Obrador as the like of the hemisphere's left-wing bogeyman, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - PRD loyalists may cry fraud...
...insist that Mexican election officials could have resolved the count as early as Monday morning without throwing the nation - and the financial markets - into days of uncertainty. But those authorities appear more overwhelmed than crooked. Mexico is still a fledgling democracy at best. And whoever does come out the winner this week will have nothing even remotely resembling a mandate. With the Congress looking more or less evenly divided between the PAN, PRD and PRI, turning any presidential agenda into law will be as precarious as a Mexican migrant's trek through the Arizona desert. Which means the political stalemate...