Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everywhere. Coca-Cola (a.k.a. "Coca") and Pepsi have made inroads to even the most remote towns--towns which still do not have running water. (I even visited a Mayan village where the bubbly has been incorporated into a sacred healing ceremony.) If you walk through Comitan in the late afternoon, you can hear the loud cheers of the audience on the Mexican version of "The Price is Right." Tommy Hilfiger and Winnie the Pooh and American sports team regalia are popular in the small family-run stores. Their imitations are even more common: Tommy Halfmaker, sneakers with a "half Swoosh...
What has hit home the most for me was befriending Chelie, a 15-year-old girl who lives in my boarding house. She left school a few years ago to earn money for her family and is up at dawn each day doing domestic chores until late in the evening. As a Harvard student, I complain about excessive homework, the lack of social life at school and what was served in the dining hall for dinner. The disparity between livelihoods is just so unbelievably vast. Who's the adult here? And this week, with this pained awareness of the grave...
...taught English at the College for forty years, and also served as chair of the Department of English during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Afterwards, he served as the chair of the Department of History and Literature...
...meantime, it looks more and more like the GOP leaders against the world. From the White House (Al Gore stopped by late Tuesday to trash the bill for neglecting Medicare) to the polls, the appetite for a cut that big just isn?t there right now. Even fellow Republican and economic icon Alan Greenspan is in on the finger-wagging. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, the Fed chairman more or less repeated what he told the House last week: In this time of economic plenty, tax cuts aren?t bad, but debt repayment ?- and preparing for boomers...
Indonesia may have trouble persuading anyone to bother voting next time around. The country supposedly ended 34 years of dictatorship by going to the polls in early June to elect a new president. But the results were only announced last week, more than a month late ? and then, on Monday, the process was thrown into turmoil when the country?s Electoral Commission, two thirds of which must endorse the result to make it stand, nixed the poll. Although the five major parties all gave the thumbs-up, a plethora of smaller parties represented on the commission cried fraud...