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Americans admire. Canada is more than just a giant neighbor; it is also a good neighbor, and its hardiness appeals to America's nostalgia for its own frontier days. Japan's emergence as an economic superpower is more than just a testament to the U.S.'s benevolence as a victor in war and a partner in peace; it is the result of hard work, ingenuity and entrepreneurship, qualities that Americans esteem...
...episode that first brought him national notoriety, Marcos responded to a slighting of family honor in a manner worthy of Michael Corleone. In 1935 Mariano Marcos was unexpectedly defeated for a third term in the Philippine House of Representatives by a neighbor, Julio Nalundasan. When the victor flaunted this triumph in a humiliating manner, Ferdinand, who had been a member of his university's shooting team, hid in the orchard one night outside Nalundasan's home and at an opportune moment coolly fired two shots from a long-barreled .22-cal. pistol. Ferdinand was found guilty of murder...
...sequel to Wouk's The Winds of War, which drew vast ratings back in 1983, the drama will spend 32 hours (17 1/2 this month, an additional 14 or so next spring) recounting America's experience in World War II, mostly through the eyes of a fictional naval officer, Victor ("Pug") Henry, and his family...
...faculty failed to prove at that time that the public access would have detrimental effects on the university. It was decided that access was a legitimate public interest of public employees of a public university," said Victor Perpetua '73, a staff attorney at the FOI who is handling the battle...
Jurors at the trial of Victor Lopez were troubled by a major discrepancy. Lopez, charged with sexually assaulting three New York women, is a light- skinned Hispanic, yet each of the women had told police that her assailant was black. Was he, as his attorney insisted, a victim of mistaken identity? No, concluded a jury in Queens, N.Y., last week; it found Lopez guilty of all three attacks...