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Some Americans are outraged at the cruel punishment Fay will receive for what seems like a rather insignificant crime. Others congratulate the Singaporean government on its impending human pinata-fest. More than one stodgy middle class American who has had the antenna ripped off his car has said, "All I know, Geraldo, is that Fay kid sure won't be picking up any spray-paint cans any time soon...
Whatever the shortcomings of the Chamorro government, they pale in comparison with the Sandinistas' shameless pillaging of the country during the two months between their electoral defeat and the day Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took the helm. Nicaraguans refer to those rapacious weeks as "la pinata," after the papier-mache animals that children whack with a stick so they can plunder the candy stuffed inside...
State-owned enterprises became private overnight, with former Sandinista Cabinet ministers and army officers listed as executives. Chamorro's government is attempting to evict Ortega and a handful of other Sandinista squatters from their mansions. But for the most part, it has decided to ignore "la pinata." Says Antonio Lacayo, Chamorro's right-hand man: "In this country, political reality has more weight than...
Like a cop on a beat, Mahon patrols the Northside, stopping to chat with anyone who will return her smile. At the Fiesta Mart, the noisy, pinata- bedecked hub of the neighborhood, Mahon stops to urge a security guard to bring his wife to a Madres meeting. Then she walks over to Edith Espinoza, who is wrapping food under a blinking red neon light trumpeting FRESH TORTILLAS. Espinoza, about eight months pregnant, knows Mahon but doesn't know English. So, with some help from the store manager, she informs Mahon that she is going to the hospital the next...
This year's Cinco de Mayo celebration is thebiggest ever at Harvard, Ovalle said, and hasincluded members of the community and a pinata forthe children. Also, the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cornell and Wilson Universities aresending people to participate in the programs, hesaid...