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On its own "merits," the Administration's tactic is pitiful indeed. But given the history of American involvement in Central American elections, this latest episode is nothing short of a disgrace. For years, whoever happened to be sitting in the Oval Office rubber stamped the blatantly fixed elections of former...
Often a battered woman has grown up with violence and accepts it as a pitiful form of caring, or at least as something inevitable in a relationship. She may feel desperately that the world is a dangerous place and that she needs a protector, even a man who beats her...
Yet even as Mexico tries to hold the line against disaster, its biggest problems remain largely unsolved. Two-thirds of the country's 76 million people live as rock-poor campesinos on subsistence farms in some of the worst rural and urban slums anywhere in the world. Undernourishment is...
It is less clear, though, who gets the most out of these shows. Department-store types, impatient with any nonscheduled creative process, frequently say that these many-splendored displays give the designers a hard deadline to fix on. "They're an exam, an essay, a résumé...
Peasants of the steep Mourgana region, the northwest roof of Greece, were horrified by the pedomasoma, but they were battered and half-starved by a decade of war, and few had the strength or cunning to resist. One who did was Eleni Gatzoyiannis of the little farm hamlet Lia. Though...