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...shut down the courts and the congress, abolished civil liberties and began ruling by decree. The result? The Shining Path guerrillas, who were strangling the country, have been almost beaten; the economy is thriving; and Fujimori is highly popular. "Traditional democracies will end up in the garbage heap," he told a Peruvian magazine...
Prosecutor Pamela Bozanich began her closing argument last Wednesday by tacking a single picture to the courtroom bulletin board. The full-color glossy showed the TV room of the Menendez mansion in Beverly Hills, California, patriarch Jose lifeless on a couch, his wife Kitty in a smashed and bloodied heap on the floor. In blunt language that veered from the schoolmarmish to the sarcastic, Bozanich delivered her message: "Lyle Menendez, accompanied by his brother, planned this murder . . . this was an intentional killing...
...understand Trotman's management style, look at the Mustang. To save the company's new muscle car from the scrap heap -- a mission he took on as a personal project -- he allowed free reign to a skunk-works operation where teamwork and cooperation replaced procedures and hierarchies. One innovation that might never have fitted into an organization chart: putting engineers and computer designers into the same test cars just to keep their very different technical worlds focused on the real product. Trotman and other key Ford executives checked up on the Mustang project in after-hours visits by the back...
Some might be surprised to find sophomore Aaron Israel on the top of that heap, but with a 2.27 goals against average and an even .900 save percentage, the Mather House resident is finding the going pretty smooth early in the year...
What sets her well apart from the ruck of writers is the lash and sting of her language. She can summon ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been...