Word: fixes
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...presidency was a difficult affair. He arrived in office in 1990 as a popular reformer, a man who planned to fix Peru's damaged economy and rebuild a society fractured by drug dealings and decades of low-level civil war. Doing all that, however, required that Fujimori use a firm hand. As the years went by, the hand became harsher, and Fujimori's government became more susceptible to charges of corruption. He won a third term earlier this year, but the vote was clouded with suspicion. By September, when he said he would step down the following July, Peruvians were...
...about half a country, ending this with five strokes of the gavel might also feel like a fix. And somehow, for this unprecedented, uncharted and stubbornly interminable affair, it just doesn't seem crazy enough to work...
...Alessandro expressed confidence that teachers could fix the problems but said CRLS' vocational education programs need outside supervision to meet state standards...
...more serious challenge awaits him. His campaign was built less around what he promised to do than how he would do it. He argued that our politics was broken, "so much anger...so much division," he said, and everything would be better if we just elected him to fix it. Now we find that maybe the public wants it broken, likes it this way, the divisions sanctified by 100 million choices. We are at least two countries, evenly matched, divided by geography and gender and maybe even more by culture and values, one traditional, one tolerant, and we elected...
...either. It would delegitimize the state. The only way out is through negotiation, under international auspices. The sad thing is there are people who think we're the solution. We're a solution for what's happening now, not a fix for the long term...