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...Viva la diferencia! That was the message behind the federal court decision that last week struck down Arizona's official English law. The measure, which was narrowly approved as a state constitutional amendment two years ago, required state and local governments to conduct their business in English. Although a state court had earlier upheld the provision, federal district Judge Paul Rosenblatt concluded that the law violated First Amendment guarantees. He ruled that the law forced government officials and employees "to curtail their free-speech rights" by impermissibly tying their tongues in their dealings with non-English-speaking constituents. Arizona Governor...
American troops faced a tough battle to restore order in Panama City, where looters, some reportedly shouting, "Viva Bush!" ransacked stores and homes and where Noriega's misnamed Dignity Battalions, a paramilitary force, were putting up a street-to-street fight. Noriega's loyalists, apparently at his direction, staged hit-and-run attacks. On Friday, two days after American military commanders began declaring victory, they fired shells at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command. The Pentagon admitted that its forces had encountered stiffer resistance than expected, and Bush ordered an additional 2,000 troops to Panama as reinforcements. Meanwhile...
...university student in 1936 when the war erupted. He joined what readers of Hemingway or Orwell will recognize as the wrong side, taking up arms with Franco against the Republic. He continued his education in conflict, hearing the oxymoronic battle cry of some of his fellow soldiers: Viva la muerte...
...Wintour. A mediocre student who is said to have lost all interest in academics after a teacher upbraided her for wearing a miniskirt, Wintour never went to college and instead plunged into the world of fashion. She arrived in the U.S. in 1976 and put in stints at Viva and New York, before being named creative director of American Vogue in 1983 and editor of the British edition in 1986. In London her brusque approach to redesigning the already successful British Vogue earned her the sobriquets "nuclear Wintour" and "Wintour of our discontent." The shy editor clearly relishes power...
...private. There is, to be sure, something timorous about this palpable reluctance to publicly criticize Jackson. A well- known Democratic insider angrily but anonymously denounced Jackson in an expletive-filled diatribe as a charlatan, "from the phony blood smeared all over him after the King assassination, to his 'Viva Castro' bull, to wrapping his arms around Arafat. And you can be damn sure that all of that will be used against him if he's on the ticket...