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...later. In 1988, retired from the military, Ríos Montt formed the frg as a foe of Guatemala's rigid and venal oligarchy - shrewdly casting himself as the kind of populist caudillo (strongman) that Latin voters still tend to favor. The Maya Indians' traditional quiet stoicism about past trauma has made it easier for Ríos Montt to sell his quasi-delusional version of the local paramilitary squads he helped form, which terrorized the countryside until the civil war ended in 1996. "I did nothing that can be considered a crime against humanity," he says...
...zero for the virus, is spending more than $180 million to rebuild the provincial Center for Disease Control and add isolation rooms to hospitals. Properly prepared health facilities are key in keeping a minor outbreak from becoming a big one?SARS spread most rapidly among medical workers. "Without the trauma in hospitals there would have been no major outbreak last time," says Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani, the WHO regional adviser for communicable disease...
...additional costs," Montgomery said. Since most Germans are insured through the state, the government could end up footing the bill. Ulla Schmidt, Minister of Health and Social Security, said the extra costs had been anticipated earlier this year. Even so, it could send an already sick economy into trauma...
...lately mortgage companies that typically update rates once a day have been adjusting them several times daily. "You quote people a rate, and by the time you can lock it in, it's expired," says broker James Fresella of Apollo Financial Services in Riverdale, N.J. "That's the trauma people have to face...
...quietly under the bonds of syntax and grammar. Marjane Satrapi's childhood in revolutionary Iran?a childhood hijacked by religious fundamentalism, that witnessed the imposition of the veil, that saw the legal age of marriage for girls lowered to nine?is almost too full of trauma to be confined to a prose narrative. Satrapi powerfully captures the Ayatollahs' tyranny by rendering it in the spare, black- and-white images of a graphic novel, much as Art Spiegelman did in Maus, his comic-strip version of the Holocaust...