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...just another electoral rite in Latin America, replete though it was with rhetoric, euphoria and ill-defined promises. For the first time in 40 years, an elected Peruvian government was in the process of handing over power to another elected government. Although the official results will not be announced for a month, Garcia, leader of the center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), unofficially captured 48.7% of the vote, a better than 2-to-l lead over his only significant rival, Lima's Marxist Mayor Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, who headed the ticket of the United Left, an agglomeration...
...almost rite-of-passage for Harvard students to take part in the hurried and frantic postering of the Yard and Science Center early Monday and Thursday mornings. We notoriously politically active, busy bee Harvard students are never short of events, causes, or discussions to plan, prepare, and publicize. So when we set about doing just that for Take Back the Night 2005, a week to raise awareness about sexual and domestic violence on campus and in the greater community, we were presented with the same obstacles any student group sponsoring an event faces—how to get people...
...skies over western Brazil will soon be dark both day and night. Dark from the smoke of thousands of fires, as farmers and cattle ranchers engage in their annual rite of destruction: clearing land for crops and livestock by burning the rain forests of the Amazon ... [Their total ruination] would be an incalculable catastrophe for the entire planet. Moist tropical forests are distinguished by their canopies of interlocking leaves and branches that shelter creatures below from sun and wind, and by their incredible variety of animal and plant life. IF THE FORESTS VANISH, SO WILL MORE THAN 1 MILLION SPECIES...
Poor academic performance spreads far beyond UConn's hoops program. Over the next few weeks, millions of fans will be wagering in office pools, trying to predict who will advance in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball tournament, a rite known as March Madness. Do you like Kentucky, with its 8% graduation rate, for the Sweet 16? Is Texas, at 27% like the Huskies, a match for them on the court too? Low achievement is plaguing not just revenue-generating sports like men's basketball and football. Softball and golf teams have also lagged. Add classroom woes...
...West." How does a nation modernize this fast without eroding the traditions that define it? In Thailand, "traditional" is now often a pejorative term, meaning low-class or old-fashioned. Many of the temple's social functions have been replaced by the mall, where, the author notes, "the principal rite is the right to shop." What matters most is looking dern. Yes, that's Thai for "modern...