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...Books: Mario Vargas Llosa on his attempt to lead Peru...
...those of us who knew his work, Mario Vargas Llosa's campaign in the late 1980s for the presidency of his native Peru seemed to be a quixotic enterprise. Here was the acclaimed author of such works as The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter immersing himself in the rococo poltics of a country embattled by stratospheric inflation, pervasive corruption, severe ethnic tensions and a murderous band of Maoists known as the Shining Path. Most of Vargas Llosa's readers sighed happily when he finally lost in June 1990 to Alberto Fujimori...
Vargas Llosa intersperses his account of his public life with chapters about his childhood and youth, beginning with a vivid and traumatic memory. One day when he was 10 years old, his mother revealed to him that his father had not died before little Mario was born, as he had always been told, but was alive and was waiting in a nearby hotel to meet his son for the first time. The boy was not amused. The reasppearance of Ernesto J. Vargas, who had abandoned his wife a few months into her pregnancy, meant that Mario was yanked...
...program, launched this year by New York City schools chancellor Ramon Cortines. More than 1,000 business and community leaders were invited to accompany a school principal for one day to get better acquainted with the city's schools and their problems. Among the participants: New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Wall Street executive Henry Kravis, NBC newscaster Jane Pauley and senior executives from American Express, Motorola...
Look at the once-mighty Penguins--Mario Lemieux and company played very poorly as a team, while the Washington Capitals gelled. The result--a 4-2 first-round exit for Pittsburgh, the team that had won the Northeast Division this year and the 1991 and 1992 Stanley Cups...