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...Isabel Dyson is a young white girl who once felt "very virtuous about our pioneering mission." Thami Mbikwana is a 17-Year-old Black man who tells her in exasperation, "going to school doesn't mean the same to us as it does to you." Anela Myalatya is a Black teacher in a ghetto school who has "seen too much of it, wasted chances, wasted people." My Children My Africa! is about a country that could ours, about a country inhabited by lunacy but home to people who unrelentingly search for "opportunity to fight the lunacy...
...Greater Dayton senior citizen center, even though most of the regulars are too poor to be affected by any increase in taxes paid on benefits. "Every President tries to stick his hand into our pockets. But I worked my hands to the bone to earn my Social Security," said Isabel Mejia, 79, pausing from her volunteer work, in which she rolls plastic eating utensils into paper napkins. And don't call her stingy: last Christmas she and her fellow elderly collected 25 baskets of goods for the Salvation Army. That said, she wants Clinton to slash the deficit and wishes...
...recoil from it in practice out of fear of angering voters. Yet the plan could take hold if the U.S. could somehow reach a consensus to divvy up the burden. "The only way you'll ever get political agreement is to promise that everyone will share the pain," says Isabel Sawhill, a budget analyst at the Urban Institute, which studies social and economic problems. "My reaction is that this plan spreads the pain quite broadly...
...control of the country is not over. But Peruvians savored the sudden feeling of relief -- none more so than the autocratic Alberto Fujimori, who has turned his presidency into a virtual dictatorship, partly to quell the revolution. "Our fear was broken from one day to another," was how Isabel Coral, who works with victims of Shining Path violence, greeted the arrest. In their recent year long assault on Lima, the guerrillas had come close to terrorizing the populace into capitulation. Guzman's arrest not only halted that momentum but, more important, it gave the government's anti-guerrilla campaign...
...Princeton--Simons (2), Thomson,Naylor, Magargee; Harvard--Winters (4), Berkery(2), Hansen (2), Walton, Downing. A:Princeton--Bristow; Harvard--Berkery, Hansen,Gaffney. S: Princeton--Saddic (2);Harvard--Leary (13).Isabel M. DedringDespite the efforts of SARAH DOWNING (9),CECI CLARK (5), and MARGOT McANANEY (19), theHarvard women's lacrosse team finished second inthe national championships yesterday...