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...even into the night. The Basilica is closed for cleaning from 3 am to 5 am, but most of the people outside simply wait patiently for it to reopen. And they appear to be deeply moved by the experience of being part of this history unfolding before them. They chant the rosary, and sometimes just the name "Giovanni Paolo" in a rhythmic chorus, as they wait for hours to get a few seconds glance at the pontiff as they pass by his body...
...week, Alan García Pérez bounded onstage at his party headquarters to proclaim victory in the race for the presidency "Now the Peruvian people will change governments, change the economy, change politics and consolidate democracy," he told his supporters. The ecstatic crowd of 5,000 responded with the chant: "Alan, Presidente! Alan, Presidente...
...FRIDAY night at about 10:10 p.m. my epiphany came. I was in my room in the process of getting ready, when the monk-like chant made its way to my ears. My male roommates on the rugby team were having their team drink-up in the common room upstairs. “UHS, UHS, UHS!” they cried, in voices full and strong. “I’m gonna go to the hospital!” It was then that it hit me: these guys had goals. Lofty goals. And they were actively pursuing them...
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...regimes have a unique and regrettable talent for surviving in power, and it is not impossible that they will ride out this wave of popular discontent and mobilization. We do, however, think that those brave souls in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square are right when they chant that the “time is up” for unresponsive strongmen such as Bashar al-Assad...