Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prague, where Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel welcomed West German President Richard von Weizsacker. Havel had arranged the visit to coincide with the 51st anniversary of Hitler's arrival in the city at the head of an occupying army. He called this an "anti- event," intended to counterbalance the dark memories of 1939 and mark a reconciliation. To speak with disdain about Germans, Havel told his countrymen, "to condemn them only because they are Germans, to be afraid of them only because of that, is the same as to be anti-Semitic." But, he also reminded the Germans, it is their...
...neon light trumpeting FRESH TORTILLAS. Espinoza, about eight months pregnant, knows Mahon but doesn't know English. So, with some help from the store manager, she informs Mahon that she is going to the hospital the next day for amniocentesis. "No problema for me?" asks Espinoza, her eyes dark with worry. "No mal," Mahon reassures...
...guns won't solve the barrio's problems, which include domestic violence. Mahon has discovered that wife beating is common. One volunteer mom knows this dark secret all too well. She has survived her own tormented marriage, but a teenage friend has a boyfriend who beats her. "No man that hits you loves you," the volunteer told her. But the advice did not take hold, for her friend, now pregnant, is back with the boyfriend. So the volunteer is determined to get her friend the prenatal care she never got. "I'm going to show her that she doesn...
...shame that now, as Hispanics make their greatest strides toward the enrichment and acceptance of Hispanic culture within the American mainstream, Navarrette inexorably gravitates to the illusory, seedy, dark myths about Hispanics that would nullify their successes...
...Helluva good campaign Paul," a burly man in a dark suit said, slapping the candidate on the back...