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Chiapas' campesinos are painfully accustomed to the iron fist of feudal P.R.I. chieftains, known as caciques, who make them survive on small hardscrabble plots. Land disputes in the state are frequent and usually settled with guns. But as democracy finally takes hold in Mexico--last year opposition parties won control of the lower houses of the federal as well as Chiapas state congresses--the caciques are panicking, and the killing has become more brazen. Opposition leaders blame police and the army for arming the sort of groups that hit Acteal...
...state of Texas, known for Mesquite rodeo, male chivalry and its frequent use of capital punishment, is scheduled to execute Karla Faye Tucker on Feb. 3. Texas put to death 37 inmates in 1997, half of the entire country's death penalty victims. So why Tucker's case significant? Because...
...life as it has been portrayed on the daytime talk shows, added to the resistance to emotional responses. This was because, first, few things shock anybody anymore, and second, because people feel assured that all the freakishness of life will be normalized and neutralized on television. The too frequent child murders of the year, such as the killings in New Jersey (one by another child), the killings and shootings of and by schoolchildren in Mississippi and Kentucky, and the stories of newborns left in toilets or in Dumpsters ought to have aroused great public feelings of pity or rage...
...opinion, the industry has been remiss in checking those planes for danger and researching ways to fix the tanks. According to papers released by the Federal Aviation Administration, the fuel tanks of 26 planes--13 civilian and 13 military--have blown up since 1959. By week's end frequent flyer and Senate majority leader Trent Lott pronounced himself "very nervous" and promised hearings on the topic...
...past 21 years, Warwick combined teaching responsibilities in the Graduate School of Education and the Department of Sociology with frequent consultations with ministries of education in developing countries...