His approval rating after a year in office, just over 18percentt, is one of the lowest among leaders in Latin America, a region filled with struggling governments.
Perhaps this partly explains why — in a city filled with struggling artists, writers, dancers, singers, academics and others — only sports are deemed worthy of the hundreds of millions of dollars in public money used to subsidize sports projects like the new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium.
Toronto's tourist spots have been transformed into cobweb-covered dens filled with struggling actors in masks bursting out of plastic coffins and chasing after screaming teens and apathetic 20-somethings more dead inside than any monster envisioned by Wes Craven.
Never quite finding the edge on his wicked service game in the past week, Sampras quietly departed after four matches filled with uncommon struggle.
The time in between was filled with a struggle: to recognise his condition and willingly enter what he later called "the state of deep blindness".
My entire life has been filled with internal struggle, with both my religious beliefs and the difference between what I looked like on the outside and what I felt like on the inside.
My pool, probably like yours, is filled with people struggling along with a grimace.
