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...starting to feel like this is a huge punishment of God." RIGOBERTO CANAS, telephone operator in San Salvador, on the second major earthquake in a month to rock El Salvador...
...Salvador...
Moakley gained power and influence in the Democrat-controlled House, reaching the pinnacle of his career as chair of the Rules Committee, a final checkpoint for all legislation. In 1989, investigations he pursued helped implicate the military of El Salvador in the murder of six Jesuit priests, a finding that dried up American military aid and hastened the end of El Salvador's civil...
...tenure the operating budget dipped from $1.6 billion to $1.2 billion, but is now nearly $1.9 billion, an all-time high. "She found the money," Kaess says, "and she put WFP on the map." Kaess also credits Bertini with decentralizing the WFP. Says he: "If we were in El Salvador 24 hours after the earthquake, that was because of decentralization." More than 80% of the WFP's 6,000 employees work in the field, and the agency boasts that administrative costs are only about 9% of the budget--comparable with those of private charities. She has seen 25 countries--most...
...Lincoln Memorial; a 1901 trick film transferred from paper prints; a 1905 ride on a New York City subway; such avant-garde classics as The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), a work with such power to shock that Salvador Dali, in the first-night audience, kicked over the projector. Modern viewers should jump for joy at this collection--a heroic work of excavation and, at $99.99, an ideal Valentine's Day gift for and from film lovers. --By Richard Corliss