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Nowhere is this more evident than in Perquín, a coffee and lumber center that in 1980 had a population of 5,000. When the E.R.P. stepped up its guerrilla war, Perquín was repeatedly overrun by battling government and rebel troops, and by 1983 it was a bombed-out ghost town. Today, as those who fled have slowly and steadily returned, it is again home to 4,000 people. Most say that regardless of who is in control, they would rather live in a war zone than in refugee-choked cities...
Once again, Prefrosh Weekend is upon us. For the next few days, more than 1,000 prospective Harvard students with blinding red folders will overrun campus. They will have no idea where Leverett or Cabot is. And, for all they know, The Fox and The Spee are select secret societies dispersed somewhere along Mt. Auburn St. They just might believe anything. They will never have heard of Mather Lather, dined inside a dining hall, or eaten at the Kong. Oh, the things they shall...
...artificially maintained reefs? And what of its people, now spread out across 200 islands? Will they retreat to a few fortified strongholds and learn to live, as the Dutch have, behind high walls that cut them off from the sea? It's not as dramatic a fate as being overrun by a rising tide, perhaps, but in its own way it's just as chilling...
...growing Soviet presence. "It's ironic. The Americans are actually responsible for the Soviets' keen interest in the Philippines. I was told during my trip to Russia that were it not for the Marcoses--with whom they can still communicate in a civilized way--they would have overrun the Philippines long ago. So you see, I'm actually America's best friend...
With detailed genealogies, biographies, photographs and maps, the historian traverses ground that has since been overrun by tyrannies and famine. The arena is variously host to epic, comedy and finally tragedy, and it houses enough intrigue to fill a shelf. Here is the gigantic face of Mussolini, carved out of East African rock, a modern sphinx without a secret. Here is Haile Selassie, dwarfed behind a desk only slightly smaller than an aircraft carrier. Here is Sir Sidney Barton, the eccentric British envoy who provided the model for Sir Samson Courteney in Evelyn Waugh's farce Black Mischief. Here...