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Explaining away violence is a Gerry Adams specialty. Whenever Irish Republican Army bombs dismember innocent victims, it is Adams, president of the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, who sits down before the microphones and attempts to transform atrocities into regrettable but necessary collateral damage in a just war against British oppression. The calm, reasonable, well- spoken Adams is good...
...contrast couldn't be more apparent--at one point the narrow, winding streets of the old city (a living example of what can go wrong if roads lack traffic lights) magically transform into the sweeping avenues of New Delhi's affluent areas...
...huge massacre of Indians. Here it is ending in dialogue." He insisted that there were "no winners or losers" at the bargaining table, but it is difficult not to see the Zapatistas as triumphant. If President Carlos Salinas de Gortari honors the pledges to the insurgents, it could transform the political and economic climate in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state and one of its poorest, and improve conditions for Mexico's 6.4 million Indians...
Five years ago, MCI Communications was approached by two eager entrepreneurs with an offer to take a 20% stake in a risky venture. Their plan was to transform a local radio-dispatch system, used primarily by taxicabs and truckers, into a state-of-the-art cellular-telephone network. MCI declined the $40 million opportunity, preferring to concentrate on its core business: long- distance service...
Last, the demonstration wasn't an attempt to transform a wonderfully planned Junior Parents Weekend into a debate "forum" about having more courses or professor role models, nor was it simply an opportunity for us to strut about with signs...