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...emerged from a heavy breakfast of pork in testines, so we decided to bike over to the amusement park. Although it was a weekday, the park, which stood next to a courthouse, was very crowded. Li Mei explained it was because everyone had come to hear the criminal sentences. "Peasant, age 21," was all I understood of the loudspeaker announcement. We walked past the crowds and bought tickets for the park. I taught my cousins how to drive bumper cars. We went or five or six rounds, got tired and decided to go home. As we walked to our bikes...
Moreover, the blood of an American soldier is no redder than that of a Somalian peasant. If one soldier dies for every hundred Serbs forced to put down their weapons, the United States will have achieved a remarkable success while putting to shame the isolationist European powers personified by Great Britain's ineffective Lord Owen...
Nearly 100 people were killed in fighting as peasant rebels seized four towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on New Year's Day. Announcing that their struggle was "for work, land, housing, food, health care, education, independence, freedom, democracy, justice and peace," the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, composed largely of Indian descendants of the Maya, declared war on the government of President Carlos Salinas. Mexican armed forces used tanks, planes, rockets and helicopter gunships to drive the guerrillas -- estimated to number as many as 1,500 -- into heavily forested mountain areas near the Guatemalan border...
...nothing, as the word now implies, but in the rejection of the standard beliefs and values of society. And so, contrary to the times, Jesus taught radical egalitarianism. He also demanded itinerancy of his disciples. Believing that such wanderlust subtly spread subversion, the Romans had him crucified. Jesus -- a peasant nobody -- was never buried, never taken by his friends to a rich man's sepulcher. Rather, says Crossan, the tales of entombment and resurrection were latter-day wishful thinking. Instead, Jesus' corpse went the way of all abandoned criminals' bodies: it was probably barely covered with dirt, vulnerable...
...tattered copy of The Radcliffe News. Another had been inspired by a childhood hot-air balloon tour of Tuscany. And certainly, some of these recipes we had devised ourselves, tired as we were of cafe lunches and bistro suppers and craving simpler, heartier fare. As a simple Provencale peasant would say, bon apetit...