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...prosperity and he gives me brain and muscles to work," Moreno writes, using terms that could be found in many Christian sermons preached from Mississippi to Brazil. But on the next page, there's a switch to phrases strikingly similar to those coined by revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. "It is better to be a master of one peso than a slave of two; it is better to die fighting head on than on your knees and humiliated; it is better to be a living dog than a dead lion...
According to senior Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, one of the protestors, SWA believes the University will succumb to the pressure of negative press and potentially deferred recruits, and that administrators will be forced to effect change...
...Palace and most other governmental offices were still occupied by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico for close on seven decades. But its hold on power was already slipping, and an insurgency invoking the name of a the fabled and beloved early-20th-century revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata depressed the PRI's stock even more. Last year, Mexicans finally booted it out, electing the first opposition president in 71 years...
...Well, ever since he won the election, Fox's people have been sending out feelers to the Zapatistas about the prospects for resolving the conflict in Chiapas. And remember, Subcomandante Marcos is the front man and voice of the movement, but the EZLN [Emiliano Zapata Front for National Liberation] is run by a council of Mayan tribal chieftains. Since Fox sent these feelers out, most of the other people on the Zapatista council have been willing to give the new president a chance. In fact there was a break within the ranks of the EZLN on this question...
...Mill Valley, Calif., in a one-bedroom apartment above a coin-operated laundry, Andre Mehr, a white 17-year-old with a crew cut, and Emiliano Obiedo, a ponytailed 16-year-old who is half white and half Hispanic, are huddled over a PC. A beat spirals up. Obiedo offers some advice, and Mehr clatters away at the keyboard. They are making music. Once they settle on a beat, Obiedo will take a diskette bearing a rhythm track home and lay down some rhymes. Soon they hope to have enough for a CD. Boasts Obiedo: "I'm going to change...