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...chronic bloodletting of Central America, Costa Rica stands out as an oasis of calm. But when the quadrennial presidential elections roll around, the country erupts into a celebration of its nearly century-old democracy that resembles nothing quite so much as a homecoming football game. Music blares, drivers honk, and flags decorate the streets. The Feb. 2 elections were no different. After more than 1 million voters went to the polls, Oscar Arias Sanchez of the ruling National Liberation Party emerged triumphant with 52.3% of the vote, defeating the Social Christian Unity Party's Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier, who claimed...
...they tend to run red lights and ride down one-way streets the wrong way," he says, adding that drivers' legitimate expectations for cyclists to "pull some ridiculous stunt" further compounds the problem. "They'll tend to either give you a wide berth, speed up past you or just honk their horns," he says...
Preserving that wondrous mayhem may be asking too much. The two covers on Still Life are fine, funky cuts powered by the Charlie Watts-Bill Wyman rhythm machine. Jagger reminds all of his still startling ability to transform black R & B and white honk into the Stones' own unique grinding sound...
...revolver to keep in his home. "That is one hell of a way to live," he says. Adds Janet Cooper, a legal researcher who lives in Miami: "I see people walking down the streets openly carrying guns, some in their hands, others in their holsters. You don't dare honk your horn at anybody; you could end up dead...
...street brilliantly, and for as far as we could see, there were backed-up cars fading slowly into the distance in a hazy coud of smog. Behind the hotel was a freeway with a tunnel, and the thing to do in L.A. when you're in a tunnel is honk your horn, so an endless echoing Waaaaaaa of automobile horns filled the air. Drivers were angry and aggressive, but none of them seemed surprised by the traffic. Just another holiday in Southern California--a traffic jam is part of the deal. We watched and laughed and sipped Coors...