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...dozen years of war, and the estimated $1.3 billion in related material damage, will not be erased by the stroke of a pen. The army, which bears responsibility for the majority of wartime human-rights abuses, and the F.M.L.N., which prolonged the fighting during the lengthy peace talks, cannot abandon innate suspicions of each other. As a result, though Salvadorans will be technically at peace, they will face tension and fear, if not outright hostility, for the foreseeable future...
...former Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. Dominated by communist hard-liners until the August 1991 coup, hostile to free elections and self- determination for the nations of the Soviet Union, and addicted to economic half measures, his government adopted reforms to strengthen the communist system, not to abandon it. With the final lowering of the red flag of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, that situation changed decisively. The Soviet people finally achieved their deepest aspiration -- not reform under communism but reform without communism. Unfortunately, the West has been slow in committing itself to a comprehensive program of assistance...
...Miller and financial aid officers say that colleges around the country, perhaps even Harvard, will have to abandon need-blind admissions and need-based aid in favor of a merit-based system. And the consent decree may accelerate the change...
...benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of , the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...
...Hills, director of entrepreneurial studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Cost-conscious corporations, which want to reduce the number of full-time employees, often replace them with free-lancers, consultants and other outside contractors to perform such services as payroll and maintenance. Large companies also tend to abandon markets that may be unprofitable for them but a feast for small firms...