Word: roberto
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...party, the right-wing Partido Accion Nacional (PAN), repudiated the President's handpicked candidate, Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, for the nomination, choosing instead Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, a former head of PAN who is running second or third in most of the polls. Calderon alternates places in the polls with Roberto Madrazo Pintado, the candidate of the Partido Revolutionario Institucional (PRI), which held a monopoly on the presidency until Fox's election in 2000. There is a formal campaign "truce" among the candidates until January 19. At that time, however, an expensive, ad-filled election season is expected to inundate...
...lights flicker off and a square of light pops up on a screen at the end of the table. Images appear and start moving across the screen. The 10-minute film follows a pregnant woman—the sister of one of the student filmmakers, Roberto C. Patino ’06—through her everyday life. She first appears on the screen, doing laundry and making breakfast. Later, the camera skims over a variety of inanimate objects in her life: a framed wedding picture, a Pilates pregnancy edition videocassette, a container of pregnancy nutrient supplements. The photographer follows...
...Roberto Benigni was in great form last Thursday night, frantically pacing the stage in search of "one thing, just one thing!" that Silvio Berlusconi has done for Italy since becoming Prime Minister in 2001. The Oscar-winning film director and comedian was a guest on RockPolitik, an irreverent mix of song, satire and sermonizing hosted by Italy's most popular entertainer, Adriano Celentano. After sitting down to write a mock letter of apology to Berlusconi, the odd couple racked their brains for something positive to say. Drawing a blank, the scrawny comic then feigned a call to a friend...
...Club” are completely obliterated and the muscles he flexed as a teenage killer in “Murder by Numbers” are reinforced. The only other redeeming quality of “Stay” is the imaginative, if not purely genius, camerawork. Director of Photography Roberto Schaefer, who also paired with Foster in “Neverland” and “Monster’s Ball,” outdoes himself by using creative camera angles and surprising scene transitions to keep audience members at the edge of their seats. The opening scene...
...September 2004, Hausmann and MIT economist Roberto Rigobon published a study concluding that the previous month’s Venezuelan referendum, in which Chávez survived a presidential recall, was almost certainly fraudulent. The study cast doubt on a previous election audit conducted by the Carter Center, a human-rights group founded by former President Carter...