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...uncover a number of key sites, including the monument-strewn ruins of Teopantecuanitlan in the Mexican state of Guerrero, and the sacred shrine at El Manati, whose murky springs yielded the first examples of wooden Olmec statuary and the earliest known evidence of child sacrifice in Mesoamerica. Heat and hardship notwithstanding, the prospect of understanding the still shrouded origins of Mesoamerican civilization--and the haunting beauty of the items on display at the National Gallery--makes it all seem worthwhile...
...possible to transform a society that is used to being governed by dictators into a U.S.-type democracy in one generation. Russians needed help on their way to achieving this, and they never got it. There were very few financial investments that could show Russians that despite the economic hardship, their country was changing. So it is not strange that Russians want to turn back the clock. Most people are fighting for their economic survival. That is why the ex-Communists are getting more power and the Clinton Administration's efforts to support Yeltsin may be too late. ANDRE KAMINSKI...
Despite his initial setback, Laitin says he stuck with economics despite the hardship involved, because there "was nothing interesting enough" to give up what he had already invested in the economics curriculum...
...totalitarian rule choose a course that could quickly lead to their renewed oppression? Part of the answer can be found in the abuse Yeltsin received in Yaroslavl. "A lot of Russians have come to identify various aspects of what we call reform not with a better future but with hardship," explains U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (and former TIME editor at large) Strobe Talbott, who oversees the Clinton Administration's Russia policy. "Crime and corruption are both broad based and deeply rooted," Talbott says. "They pose huge obstacles to Russia staying on a reformist course. [So] Russians tend to identify...
...with a lot of pain and hardship since no one in the village spoke English," Mildbrandt-Wyatt said. "But by the time he was ready to leave, everyone recognized him as a Czech...