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...example, if around budget time, he or she is worrying about the administration of a local library instead of the police and fire departments," explains Manuel Carballo, a lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Perhaps instead he or she should spend more time allocating money for police and fire budgets...
Introduced to the freshman class by several long-time devotees, Hackey-Sack has become a favorite group diversion for a growing community of players already numbering about 40, says Manuel "Spike" Lerdau...
...either a bold bid for peace or aclever propaganda ploy. Shadowed by bodyguards in the venerable Mexico City Foreign Correspondents Club, Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 51, president of El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), a leftist political alliance that boycotted last March's elections, faced an overflow audience. Alongside was Ana Guadalupe Martínez, a representative of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist-led organization that unites the country's five guerrilla factions. Ungo and Martínez announced that their groups had offered to begin unconditional direct negotiations with the Salvadoran government...
Campaign workers for New Mexico's First District incumbent, Republican Manuel Lujan Jr., are fond of saying that he is "as New Mexican as green chili." They come honestly by the claim. Lujan boasts ancestors in the state as far back as A.D. 1540. But he is also an anomaly: a Republican Hispanic who has won seven terms in a district where Democrats have a 2-to-1 registration advantage...
...Corral, president of the Juárez Chamber of Commerce, who is futilely struggling to persuade Americans to keep buying below the border. Indeed, the uncertainty has been the main factor keeping Americans from shopping for much of anything in Mexico. "The tourists are scared away," says Salesman Manuel Vasquez, surveying his empty marble-products shop in Juárez, which logically should be packed with Texans seeking more for their dollar. "Our business is off about 50%. Capitalism works. This type of stupid socialism doesn...