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Despite such success stories, the widespread Mexican hardship puts enormous pressure on Zedillo, a Yale-trained economist who took office Dec. 1, to ease his austerity campaign. But that would almost certainly destroy foreign confidence in Mexico's ability to regain its footing and would thus send the peso slipping again. ``This time there's no free lunch,'' says Mauricio Gonzalez, managing partner of a Mexico City consulting firm...
...years of fear and hardship in captivity made the South African leader hard to know. "He is not a publicly introspective person," observes Stengel. "He'll tell you what he thinks, but not how he feels." At such impasses, Stengel needed all his journalistic prowess. "Rick has a tremendously keen eye for detail and the telling anecdote," says executive editor Jim Kelly. "He'd be the ideal companion to sit with someone and persuade them to describe scenes and encounters in the liveliest way possible...
Lauren writes ironically in his first editor's note that "Swing is about men and women in their 20s who have ingeniously realized their aspirations in the face of hardship." But the magazine has a great deal more to do with the leisurely diversions of the young, wealthy and idle--including Lauren and his friends who run the publication. Indeed, Swing is a product of spoiled suburban children who play at publishing and editorializing...
Healy said Question 9 "creates very difficult problems" for the city. "The abrupt climination of rent control would cause great hardship for many people and undoubtedly have far reaching and unpredictable impacts on the character and diversity of our community...
From rebellions to potato famines, Ireland is a place with a long history of hardship and an equally long tradition of singing about it. As a defining cultural activity, singing is for the Irish what baseball is for Americans or chess is for the Russians. Ireland's national symbol is a harp, the instrument used to accompany a singer, and the national genius, James Joyce, was probably more vain about his voice than his prose style...