Walger and others take strong issue with what they term Kirchner's sometimes revisionist portrayal of his fellow ex-radicals.    From Wordnik.com.  [OPENING OLD WOUNDS] Reference

Since the US media never told this story, they'd be hard put to explain Kirchner's role in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Naiman: Remembering Nestor Kirchner, South American Hero Who Defied the IMF] Reference

Mr. Kirchner is expected to be buried in his hometown of Rio Gallegos later in the week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Argentina Mourns Former President Nestor Kirchner] Reference

In the short run, Mrs. Kirchner is likely to receive an enormous outpouring of sympathy for her loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ex-Argentine President N] Reference

Petras calls Kirchner a "pragmatic conservative willing to dissent from the US when it" serves Argentina's business interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promised Social Change in Ecuador] Reference

Kirchner is a true-blue Peronist, and proud of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin America's Two Left Wings] Reference

Actually, Kirchner is not a complete political stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Nobody Knows] Reference

In Argentina, Kirchner has followed a less extreme path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil Is in a Class by Itself] Reference

She, like Kirchner, was a Peronist firebrand in her student days.    From Wordnik.com.  [OPENING OLD WOUNDS] Reference

"Kirchner is a 1970s-style Peronist," says economist Norberto Sosa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Nobody Knows] Reference

Still, the cocky Kirchner may want to tread a little more cautiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

"I'm a regular guy who happened to become president," Kirchner replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Fire, the Blowback] Reference

But she's an unlikely choice if Kirchner intends a radical shift in policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Views of a Firing] Reference

Kirchner has tackled a reform agenda with the fiery ardor of an independent.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sap To Superhero] Reference

Kirchner has not only grabbed it, but proved himself to be a wily politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sap To Superhero] Reference

"The agriculture sector is bubbling, and I believe Kirchner has good intentions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comeback?] Reference

Kirchner carried only seven of Argentina's 23 provinces in the first-round election.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Nobody Knows] Reference

"Before Kirchner became president, I had been a legislator, an activist, a politician.".    From Wordnik.com.  [LATINA LIFTOFF] Reference

I stayed very close to the Kirchner couple's mansion (they usually show up on weekends).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale] Reference

"This is a country without leaders, and Kirchner has no support he can call his very own.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Nobody Knows] Reference

After presidential allies were booed by delegates, Kirchner supporters resigned their party posts.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

Kirchner, a virtual unknown just weeks ago, will now march unopposed into the presidency on May 25.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Like all pols, Kirchner made campaign promises, but few people actually expected him to fulfill them.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sap To Superhero] Reference

And not all the critical voices aimed at Kirchner are coming from Europe, Japan and the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comeback?] Reference

"Kirchner is taking tough measures, but they give the country the possibility of growth in the future.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comeback?] Reference

And when Kirchner finally ended his self-imposed silence, he only managed to compound the error of his ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Fire, the Blowback] Reference

A proponent of neo-Keynesian economics, Kirchner has invoked some of the Peronist party's old populist rhetoric.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Nobody Knows] Reference

"Kirchner will be the least powerful president in the history of Argentina," says pollster Manuel Mora y Araujo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Nobody Knows] Reference

It is still early in the Kirchner era -- he has more than four years left in his term, and the jury, as one U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comeback?] Reference

With little support in Congress or from the country's bureaucracy, Kirchner had a shaky mandate, to say the least.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sap To Superhero] Reference

Kirchner doesn't have much solid support of his own and he certainly is not going to have the support of Menem's people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

The man whose nickname only a few weeks ago was "Chirolita," a famous puppet, is now being described as "super-Kirchner.".    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sap To Superhero] Reference

But two thirds of all Argentines now favor the resumption of human-rights trials, and Kirchner is spearheading the backlash.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Dirty War'] Reference

Photo: Poll position: Neither Menem (far left), Kirchner (above left) or Sáa has more than 16 percent of the projected vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Magical Solutions] Reference

When Duhalde's first choice declined the invitation and another ally fizzled in the polls, he settled on Kirchner almost by default.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Nobody Knows] Reference

Kirchner will soon realize he will have to cooperate with the United States and foreign capital -- if he hasn't realized it already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Bacman says that Kirchner "has easily proved his legitimacy" and has a "historic opportunity" to become a statesman and change Argentina.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sap To Superhero] Reference