Word: pathe
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Tupac Amaru has always been something of a poor cousin to Peru's most infamous terrorist group, the Maoist-inspired Shining Path, which nearly succeeded in its violent bid to topple the Peruvian state in the early 1990s. Smaller than its notorious rival, Tupac Amaru drew inspiration not from China but from Cuba, and recruits from the countrys farthest shantytowns of the dispossessed poor. The organization's name has a bloody history. It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua...
...years later, Fujimori seized near dictatorial powers in a "self-coup" that savaged virtually every democratic institution in the country but enabled him to implement draconian security measures that eventually crippled both rebel movements. By 1993 Abymael Guzman, the Shining Path warlord whose face had not been seen in 25 years, was in jail and Polay had been recaptured. An elated Fujimori boasted to a Chilean reporter that "no one here in Peru any longer doubts that [Tupac Amaru] will be defeated this year...
...students really want to experience and learn about the music of Bach," he says, "there is no better way than going to Emmanuel on Sundays. It will put them in touch with another world." Wolff praises Emmanuel for its diligent study of Bach, whom he says paved the path for composers all the way through the modern age. "Bach showed us that you can write in all 24 keys and mold music that is technically perfect and expressive so that it reaches the listener as well as the performer...
...think we're going to see continuity in the path that we're going down this year in creating a rational structure for PBHA," Ehrlich said...
...obvious path leading to a further education in medicine, but I'll never give up being a paramedic," Tripp says. "Most of being a doctor involves working in a totally controlled environment, but being a paramedic means you get to play in the street...