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...mansion's main hall. Among the bullet holes that riddled Cerpa's body was a single one in the forehead. Having erased with finality the multiple humiliations of the 126-day hostage crisis, Fujimori can credibly claim to have made good on his 1995 re-election campaign vow: to squash terrorism in Peru. Asked at a Thursday press conference whether the country had seen the end of the Tupac Amaru, Fujimori was understandably cautious and said "not necessarily." But despite promises of retribution made by the rebels' international spokesman, nearly all the movement's leaders are now either dead...
...Liberation Army (N.L.A.) of Iran is 30,000 strong, fully armored and ready at any moment to do battle. Some 35% of its soldiers are women, as are 70% of its officers. The troops wear no insignia of rank, live communally and receive no pay. They have taken a vow to remain celibate until Iran is freed. And all express near fanatical loyalty to the woman they hope to install as the next President of Iran: Maryam Rajavi...
...arrive home for winter vacation after spending a semester learning from mostly inaccessible professors and preoccupied teaching fellows. Every year at the end of December, I think to myself that many have been wonderful and some have been less than wonderful, but all have been, well, male. I vow that the next semester I will pick some classes taught by women...
When Seventh District Representative Kweisi Mfume resigned in February to become president of the NAACP, Cummings easily won an April special election to fill that seat, and he's running now for his first full term. The son of sharecroppers, he vows to follow Mfume's path of liberalism and support for blacks and the urban poor. In his six months in office, Cummings has kept his vow, supporting economic development and affirmative action in black communities and sponsoring funding for urban teen centers to serve as alternatives to street gangs...
...themes that hit home. Satire can be defined as the art of making people laugh while dabbling in touchy subjects, and everyone laughs at this musical. But after they stop laughing, the married people in the audience mumble about how true to life the squabbling is; never-married people vow that their marriages will never be like that. No matter which category you fall into, Punch and Judy Ger Divorced is a worthwhile night of theater...