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...scary and uncertain times, this kind of forcefulness is what some people want more than anything else. In Hialeah, Fla., a largely Hispanic city next to Miami, teacher Rose Ramirez, 57, declares, "It's about time we have a President that has the balls to do the right thing. People forget about 9/11." Bush's supporters increasingly worry about what they see happening in Iraq, but they stand behind him because he himself has not wavered. It's as though they support his certitude more than his policies, his self-assurance more than his programs. "I like that...
Life had also become predictable for Don Ramirez, 53, a financial planner in Canberra, Australia. The former Philippine army officer was itching to work overseas again and signed up with the United Nations Volunteers. He is currently organizing elections in Kandahar, Afghanistan--a hazardous task, as the explosion of a car bomb outside his office in November made obvious. Though unnerved, he wasn't hurt. "Things here are still very unpredictable," he says, but thanks to his life experience, "I am quick to adapt to an ever changing, even hostile, international environment...
Boston has the AL batting champion in Bill Mueller—who will likely hit eighth, no less—and two MVP candidates in Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. Mueller finished the regular season hitting .327, just one percentage point ahead of Manny. Manny hit 36 home runs, while David Ortiz came out of nowhere—well, fine, Minnesota—to belt 31 home runs...
Spin-off industries are also blossoming, such as Liza Elliott-Ramirez's Expecting Models, founded in July 2001. "When I started modeling 20 years ago, pregnancy was something you hid," she says. "But when I was pregnant [in 2000], I never worked so much." Business has quadrupled since the agency opened, and some of the 100 pregnant models on Elliott-Ramirez's books command as much as $10,000 a day. "It's a huge and booming market," she says. "There are new vendors every day, as they realize pregnant women are consumers who want to look good...
Making his way through an adoring crowd of office workers, he approached the counter and announced his intention to file his candidacy for Governor. Then he smiled and asked clerk Tanya Ramirez, "You know who I am, right...