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...really impressed by the effort of the government department," said Erica A. Eppinger '95, whose thesis was entitled "Toward a New Conception of Political Motherhood: Two Mothers' Movements in Chile. "It's nice to be able to come here and share beer with those who understand the stress you went through...
...comeback is a bottomless source of marvel for his adoring fans. His Olympic disappointments last year in Lillehammer, Norway, led the three-time Winter Games gold medalist to consider retiring. His father, among others, talked him out of it, Tomba says. Last summer he trained intensively in Argentina and Chile, shedding the between-competition flab that at times has made La Bomba look more like an overgrown bambino. He returned in harder shape and, with age catching up on him, more determined than ever...
...Brazil, Chile and Argentina, all guarantors of the 1942 treaty, have pressed both sides to avoid further bloodshed. No one doubts that a full- blown war between Peru and Ecuador would be a lopsided contest. Peru's armed forces (115,000 soldiers) and population (22 million) are twice the size of its rival's. ``Conflicts like this start as skirmishes, but they always hold within them the potential to escalate,'' says a senior Administration official. ``It's important to nip them in the bud.'' And in this case, to try to settle the border dispute once...
...midweek, Mexico got a measure of relief when the International Monetary Fund approved a $7.8 billion loan, the largest it has ever made, to help stabilize the peso. Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia also jointly opened a $1 billion credit line for Mexico. But the infusions were not large enough to solve Mexico's most serious challenge: finding sufficient funds to pay off or refinance $26 billion in mostly foreign-owned short-term bonds maturing during 1995. The government got a hint of the difficulties ahead last week when it put at auction $400 million in U.S. dollar-denominated bonds...
...example, a joint effort between CfAscientists and a group in Chile has recently shownthat the universe may be more than five billionyears younger than the previously acceptedestimate of 20 billion...