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...opponent in the March presidential elections. D'Aubuisson denounced the gesture as "a political show, a farce." He later adopted a more conciliatory posture after his vice-presidential running mate, Hugo Barrera, endorsed Duarte's notion of talks with the guerrillas and asked only that the President spell out "clear, definite and concrete means" toward a solution to the civil war. The right's quiet response was a sign of another Duarte triumph: during his four-month tenure, the President has managed to reassure most of his conservative critics of his essentially moderate views...
...freshmen joined hands in four big circles, feeble attempting to spell...
...figure of the Austral Islands' god A'a, one of Pi casso's favorites. The main value of primitive art to modernism was not formal but quasi-magical. It gave the artist what academism could not: shamanistic power, a sense of the numinous. Muttering the spell, even in macaronic form, still provoked a delicious shudder of possibility...
...arts. It is the price we pay for social mobility, just as the exclusivity of cliques are the necessary outcome of a free society's overwhelming diversity. The message: better to be ambiguous in our freedom than fixed in the higher hypocrisy and vices of 'perfect' solutions that spell slavery...
...spell relief? Last week in Argentina they were spelling it IMF. After seven months of dickering, officials of the Argentine government and the International Monetary Fund reached an arrangement whereby Argentina would get IMF emergency loans to help put its economy on a sounder footing. The IMF aid will enable Argentina to get more loans from private banks so that it can meet interest payments on its $45.5 billion debt...