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Inflation has hit 114 percent for September alone, 634 percent so far this year. Police officers in the center of Lima spray black water and bullets into brick-throwing rioters. I have also seen them shoot tear gas into protest marches of shantytown mothers with babies on their backs...
...River on an apple-crisp autumn afternoon, a landscape of cornfields, horse farms and wooded hills unrolls from the horizon. There is not a chemical factory or oil refinery in sight. Oh, oh, wait a minute. On the outskirts of Flemington, a picturesque village of Victorian homes and red-brick buildings, a sign proclaims, FACTORY LUGGAGE OUTLET -- BRAND NAMES AT BIG SAVINGS! Something decidedly unbucolic is going on out here...
Liberty Village, the commercial heart of Flemington, is somewhat of a surprise. Meandering over several acres of former farmland, the pleasant re- creation of a colonial marketplace boasts wide brick sidewalks, several luncheon stops and plenty of rest rooms. Long gone are the pipe racks and jumbled bins of second-quality merchandise in dusty warehouses. Since the manufacturers are selling their own goods, the stores are well stocked and well organized. Says Jean Smith, the manager of Liberty Village: "Mostly we have last season's styles and production overruns." Indeed, "Flemington is not competing with K mart," says Fran Durst...
Those are the groups in the basements. The groups in the big brick buildings detract from the Harvard community when they affect it at all. I'd like to see them switch places...
Just offshore from the island, we took on a bearded man who had tied his boat to a buoy so we could land at the one-boat pier. He was there to work on the north tower's brick work; a group of workers were being put up in an "apartment" adjacent to the keeper's house...