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...lives of the hostages. In an interview with Time last week, his first face-to-face session with the press since the crisis began, Fujimori adamantly rejected political dialogue with Tupac Amaru, insisting that the group was "in extinction." And he seemed nettled by one criticism growing louder as a result of the crisis: that in his impressive but authoritarian crusade to end Peru's long night of guerrilla terrorism--especially the atrocities of the Maoist-inspired Shining Path--he has ended up exacerbating the poverty and human-rights abuses that helped spawn rebellion in the first place...
...disappear for the duration. Take the day off--but don't tell anyone. If you have too much work, as most of us do, go sit in Widener, deep in the stacks, or in the giant reading room on the second floor, where the echo of a cough resounds louder than a wrecking ball. Stay there and study all day. Grab lunch or dinner at Loker, then go back to Widener again. Better yet, if you can afford a day away from your work, take a real break. Go to the beach in the middle of winter, to the Public...
...need to be louder," he said...
...most boisterous display of cheering and stomping I had ever seen. There was this undescribable and irrepressible sense of excitement wafting through the building. I couldn't help myself from becoming caught up in the experience. And then, just when I thought it couldn't possibly get any louder, something extraordinary happened: an image of Larry Bird (Larry Bird!), cheering from his court side seat, flashed onto the monitors scattered around the Garden. When the fans saw the basketball legend, they reacted as if God himself had sided with the Celtics; the already overpowering level of electricity in the Boston...
...spotted by some fans who began clapping for him, and he responded by waving to the crowd. Further energized, the students began cheering louder...