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...first of the country's many + desperate needs. Though the government recently announced a series of economic reforms and introduced a new currency in a bid to defeat an annual inflation rate of some 1,500%, few people believe it is capable of extracting Nicaragua from the economic mire in which the country finds itself. "We all want peace more than anything else," says Julio Duarte, a salesman from Managua who sells cheap cosmetics and novelties to the stores in Pantasma. "But peace and prosperity don't necessarily go hand in hand...
...from the actors and the director. Playwright David Hare has nothing but contempt for such mundane matters as coherence or chronology. The play demands complete attention from the audience at all times. But it's an absorbing and challenging play, and the Dunster production rescues it from a potential mire of complications and communicates its full, disturbing potential in the miniscule Junior Common Room...
...strict separation between the home and the state, not only for private individuals, but for public figures as well. As long as they don't create a clear and present danger to his job performance, a public figure's personal tastes and habits are entirely irrelevant and should not mire the political system and the political process...
...another aspect of [Harvard] trying tolook reasonable while eliminating protests," saidprotestor Mitchell A. Orenstein '89. "They are notsending us to prison but instead they are tryingto mire protest in discussion...
...sleek Audi 5000, a $20,000-plus import, has run into such a mire of controversy that last week the West German automaker recalled all such models with automatic transmissions sold in the U.S. from 1978 to 1986 -- a total of 250,000 cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which asked for the recall, has logged some 700 complaints that the Audi model suddenly accelerated when the driver shifted from park into reverse or drive. Some 230 injuries and five deaths are blamed on the problem...