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Still, Lituma does not believe that Shining Path, for all its ferocity, is behind the vanishing of the three men he was supposed to protect. "Does Sendero ever disappear people?" he wonders aloud. "They just kill them and leave their leaflets behind to let everybody know who did it." Instead, the corporal directs his attention to the husband and wife who own the dreary bar where the construction workers gather each night: Dionisio, who, as his name suggests, is a prodigious reveler in his own establishment, and Senora Adriana, who reads palms and is regarded by her customers...
...scent of blood is in the air. Newt Gingrich's ethical woes and flip-flopping on the budget may not yet be mortal wounds, but predatory scrambling is already evident. Supporters of Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the third-ranking Republican in the House, have been saying aloud that if "Gingrich goes down" to defeat at the polls or as a victim of ethics charges, DeLay will be there to "pick up the pieces." Presumably they mean he will be there too if Newt loses the support of the conservative true believers who have thus far fueled his so-called...
...Wily ghost," I thought aloud, you got me again...
Making her way through the long questionnaire required by the WHI to commit herself to the study, she wishes aloud that scientists will hold more answers in the future about women's health...
NEWT GINGRICH RETURNED FROM HIS Thanksgiving break not refreshed but chastened. Over the holiday, he had worried aloud with his wife and grown children about what he had done to himself and the Republicans. His plan to balance the budget was a month behind schedule. He had thrown a childish fit about his treatment aboard Air Force One, then connected a grisly triple murder in suburban Chicago to "the welfare state." His popularity had been dropping, taking his party's down with it. On Monday he announced he would not run for President...