Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reality, however, is much harsher. The political landscape of the Philippines remains largely unchanged. Many of Marcos' cronies are still in place and the government has studiously avoided any kind of a purge. Nothing has happened to affect the deep-seated structural problems which lie under what is one of the most unequal societies in the world...
...next step for the Crimson on the road toward a perfect season and an Ivy title is a home meet this Saturday against Cornell. Should Harvard win, only a contest at Penn would lie between the squad and its second straight championship...
...first time Coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) meets his new team, everyone witnessing the encounter knows intuitively that whatever obstacles lie in their path, the Hickory Huskers are going to win the high school basketball championship of Indiana this season...
Some of the assistance that does get through may be misguided or misused. Abandoned tractors and farm implements can be found rusting across Africa, while fields lie untended. When asked why the equipment went unused, one Ethiopian villager replied, "The foreigners came in, and when they left, we didn't know how to keep it going...
...behind the placid routine lie the very particular shadows and superstitions of Cambodian culture. May sets his story against the backdrop of his country's night world, a place of sorcerers and omens, in which dreams of blood mean money on the way and the hooting of an owl portends miscarriage. One day he drops in on a friend to find the boy spouting gibberish while a cross-legged magician tries to exorcise his "evil spirit" with the branch of a star-fruit tree...