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...international observers were totting up their "quick counts" and the battalions of reporters were frantically calling in the news, the word had spread across Managua. "We're going to win!" shouted a woman tending a bubbling cauldron in front of her house in one of the city's poorest barrios, thought to be a stronghold of the ruling Sandinistas. The Sandinistas? she was asked. "No, not those sons of bitches," she spat back. "The Dona. Dona Violeta...
With the Crimson coming off its poorest season in six years--Harvard finished with a sub-.500 record (13-14-1) for the first time since 1984--Donato's job will not be an easy one. Butthe forward, who is known as a clutch player onthe ice and an outspoken leader in the lockerroom, is expected to be a loud and visible teamleader...
...rubles a month," he tells me. "There just isn't enough work." He has a point. According to Soviet officials, Tadzhikistan's birthrate of 45 per 1,000 is by far the highest in the Soviet Union, even as the republic's economy is one of the poorest. Joblessness is openly admitted by Tadzhik officials; an estimated 70,000 to 200,000 are out of work...
Technology has made possible these multiple roles, vastly expanding what libraries can offer and eliminating many economic disparities. Through the magic of computers, a branch located in the poorest section of town can provide the same information available in branches in affluent neighborhoods. A library in Philadelphia can retrieve data housed in far-off Los Angeles. "We're beginning to define the library beyond a physical place," says Michael Eisenberg, associate professor of information studies at Syracuse University. "When you think of it that way, where does the library end?" It doesn...
...Last Emperor (1987). And, arguably, the last movie epic, for its hero is the prisoner of world events, not the shaper. With sumptuous visual intelligence, director Bernardo Bertolucci created a poignant tale about the last Emperor of China -- the poorest little rich boy in the world...