Word: alberto
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...first time had been allowed to enter the Japanese ambassador's residence, where 81 people are still being held captive. Released were Honduran Ambassador Eduardo Martel and Argentine Consul Juan Antonio Ibanez. "Any harm to (the hostages) will be the exclusive responsibility of the government of (President Alberto) Fujimori if he decides upon a military intervention," shouted a rebel, later identified as the group's leader Nestor Cerpa. He said they were willing to make the "ultimate sacrifice" in the hostage situation. Under Fujimori's administration, he said, the abhorrent conditions in Peru's prisons meant nothing less than...
...Lima only needed to peek over the embassy's garden wall, where more than 600 guests, largely government officials, foreign diplomats and corporate executives, were preparing to make a run at the sushi buffet and raise their pisco sours to toast Aoki's hospitality. Even Peru's President Alberto Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was expected. His mother Rosa, brother Pedro and sister Juana were already there...
Translator Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading (Viking; 372 pages; $26.95) is an impressionistic, engrossing look at what books have meant to people since the first inscriptions of signs on stone nearly 6,000 years ago. No one who follows Manguel's narrative to its conclusion need ever again feel guilty about putting off errands, chores, the bills, the kids, sleep--whatever--and curling up with a good, or even a great, book...
...boss Enrico and Oswaldo Cisneros, CEO of Embotelladras Hit de Venezuela, the Pepsi bottler there. But Cisneros became a Coke convert for a reported price of $300 million, a whopping chunk of cash for half interest in the business. The swiftness of the deal left Pepsi's regional president, Alberto Uribe, sputtering with rage: "Oswaldo Cisneros was my friend. He sent me four lawyers and a judge to tell me this was over." Cisneros cited Pepsi's lack of commitment to the business and his own bad health as reasons for the switch. "I gave those men five years...
Until the mid-1980s, researchers assumed that nerves in the central system were simply incapable of regrowth once they were damaged. A researcher at McGill University in Montreal, Alberto Aguayo, turned this assumption around by demonstrating that a nerve taken from an animal's leg and grafted onto the central nervous system allowed the nerve cells to grow along the transplanted nerve. Evidently there was nothing wrong with spinal-cord nerves, but something in the central nervous system was impeding their growth...