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...starts at the Oregon border and works his way south through the failed fishing and lumber towns of the north coast. What he finds there, and virtually everyplace else in the great coastal kingdom -- on through Yuba City, Copperopolis, San Jose, Fresno, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, the Salton Sea, San Isidro -- is the hunkered down, fearful middle-aged and the resentful, nihilistic youth who see no future and no present worth the trouble. Prisons are the state's sole growth industry. "More prisons were being built in California," Barich writes, "than anywhere else in the world. Frequently, they were built...
...contours. Bellows' contemporaries found such images "Hogarthian," but the closer ancestor of Stag at Sharkey's is late Goya. In particular the frieze of spectators' heads, yelling, gaping, sly, stupefied, brings to mind the faces in Goya's Witches' Sabbath or his Pilgrimage to the Miraculous Fountain of San Isidro...
Another price paid by the Sandinistas came at the Dec. 12 convocation of the Central American Presidents in San Isidro, Costa Rica. It was there that the Sandinistas, in effect, repudiated the F.M.L.N. The declaration Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega signed at San Isidro called for the Salvadoran guerrillas to "immediately and effectively cease hostilities and join the process of dialogue." The document also expressed Ortega's support of Alfredo Cristiani's Salvadoran government as democratic, something Managua had previously never conceded. "We choked hard on that one," says a former Ortega adviser. "Of course we didn't believe...
Economic instability in Argentina inevitably brings worries that the military, which ran the country with brutal inefficiency from 1976 to 1983, might hanker for another turn at power. Those fears were heightened last week when the army chief, General Isidro Caceres, warned that "the army is worried about the economic situation." For Menem, the best way to keep the soldiers at bay and serve out his full six-year term would be to set a course for economic stability and then hold firm to it. In Argentina that is no easy task...
...live hundreds of miles away and do not teach exclusively in one district. Adolescent daydreaming carries less of a penalty when students know they can view a lesson on tape. "We don't play the typical games," says David Benke, who teaches computer science to pupils from San Isidro, Texas, and Prescott, Iowa. "You've got to have a student who really wants to learn...