Word: peru
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Designer JOHN GALLIANO, who now heads the house of Christian Dior, was recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth, but during one of the first shows of Paris fashion week, the designer's mind seemed to be everywhere but England. His clothes, which drew inspiration from Peru, Mongolia, India and Russia, were relatively tame compared with Galliano's usual antics. But they delighted the fashion press, which was unexcited by the collections in Milan. The Dior headwear shown here may be a bit extravagant for city dwellers, but it should help keep llama herders braving cold weather in the Andes toasty...
...most important component of education? Will memorization help students more than instruction in critical thought and values? I doubt it. But of course that is where the money is. If the government paid for courses on kite flying, every school would teach the flying of kites. FRED FINK Callao, Peru...
...three subsequent peace accords, ensuring the continuation of the country's bloody civil war which has claimed more than half a million lives. DENIED PARDON. LORI BERENSON, 32, the American radical convicted in June 2001 of collaborating with Peruvian Marxist guerrillas and sentenced to 20 years in prison, by Peru's Supreme Court; in Lima. Berenson's parents appealed to the Peruvian President for amnesty for their daughter during last year's retrial of the former student activist, who was convicted of aiding the rebels in their war against the government and given a life sentence by a military tribunal...
...ending monarchy, caste and feudalism: nearly 2,000 had perished while gaining little ground. But since Nov. 23 when the Maoist rebels ended a four-month truce and launched a string of attacks across the nation, it has become clear that the rebels, who take as a model Peru's brutal Shining Path, have transformed themselves into a lethal force. Since then, Nepal's civil war has claimed another 900 lives. Peace negotiations have been abandoned; Parliament last week extended the state of emergency by three months and the talk now is of full-scale war. "I no longer believe...
...French tried in 1995 to prevent markets and restaurants from selling imported scallops as coquilles St. Jacques?but Canada, with support from the U.S., Peru and Chile, successfully appealed...