Word: squalidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wearing blue jeans and a contemptuous look, Peru's President Alberto Fujimori swaggers into the dank cellblock of the Castro Castro Prison, a squalid penitentiary on Lima's outskirts that houses scores of captured rebels from the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). Seeing Fujimori, the Tupac prisoners spring angrily from the concrete beds inside their overcrowded cells. Fists raised, they hurl deafening Marxist choruses: "Fujimori, dictator, the people will defeat...
...very fine airstrip" had become a fulcrum in an undeclared war between Rwanda and Zaire, a conflict that could precipitate the dismemberment of Zaire, a country the size of Western Europe. Caught in the cross fire were more than half a million Hutu refugees who have been huddling in squalid camps along Lake Kivu for the past two years. By week's end, the fighting had cut almost all of them off from emergency relief, and aid workers were, as one put it, "running out of adjectives" to describe a disaster in which 700,000 refugees have no food...
...shirt and socked feet, Michael (David Egan) likes to imagine himself lecturing at Carnegie Hall on the sex lives of superheroes. Eleanor (Abigail Gray) likes to rewrite love stories into tragedies--"Or, if they're already tragic but in a really noble way, I rewrite 'em so they're squalid and bitter." What's keeping this perfect pair apart? Only Michael's obsession with his heartless ex-girlfriend, Lisa (Erica Mitnick), who haunts his Carnegie Hall fantasies, asking steamy questions like, "Who was the first comic book character to have interdimensional sex?" In real life, she's been paying...
...argue for rolling the eyes, shaking the head and dismissing the Dick Morris scandal. Let the dog that barks at midnight go back to Connecticut and get smacked on the nose with a newspaper by his wife. This is the oldest story: sex and politics, powerful men doing stupid, squalid things. No harm done, except to Morris and family. Morris' wife said in an interview with TIME, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Of course most of us do not manage to sin as colorfully as Dick Morris apparently...
Unarmed Tutsi civilians, most of them landholders, are bearing the brunt of the ethnic cleansing. Despite decades of peaceful coexistence with local Hutu, at least 50,000 Tutsi have been forced to flee since 1995, most to squalid refugee camps just across the Rwandan border. In the Masisi highlands, two small groups of Tutsi remain. Desire Gaspira, 40, a veterinary nurse born in the area, is among them. "Before, Tutsi and Hutu worked together," he said last month. "We drank together. We were brothers. Now we are enemies." In nearby Goma a Tutsi aid worker explained the dilemma facing...