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Though few in Mexico really expect a massive uprising when the winner is announced after next week's presidential vote, the Chiapas declaration touched a national nerve. An anxious Mexico, ruled by the longest-lived one-party system in the world, is about to hold its most competitive election ever. For the first time since 1929, the long tradition of fraudulent elections has given way to a belief that the opposition has a genuine chance of winning. Yet most prospective voters remain to some degree skeptical of government promises that the vote will be completely clean and fraud free...
While Harvard hosts camps for other sports, he says the Junior Tennis Camp runs the longest and draws in the most participants...
...result is both eccentric and oddly endearing. Kirstein portrays himself as a child with "an inborn greed for artificed splendor," mesmerized by patterns and designs. One of the longest episodes in the book recounts his intense quest for just the right emblem to paint on his canoe paddle at summer camp. Citing an occasion when his father gave him a $20 bill, Kirstein remembers "the papery cash, its tough fibrous thinness inlaid with bits of red and green silk." The dreamy young man did not take much interest in academics, but he passed Harvard's entrance exam anyway. Once enrolled...
...crowded annals of history. Every year since, they have come back to give a champagne toast on the minute for their small but stunning victory. The champagne is courtesy of the French villagers, just as it was on that fateful morning of what is now known as "the longest day." May the annual toast go on as long as freedom is cherished and champagne is at hand...
...easy range of the North's huge assembly of artillery. U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry acknowledges that its weapons are larger and better than anything owned by Iraq's Saddam Hussein. They include hundreds of 240-mm rocket launchers and 170-mm Koksan guns, among the longest-range artillery weapons in the world. North Korea's 10,000 artillery pieces plus the rocket launchers can fire up to 20 million rounds of high explosives, fuel-air explosives and chemical weapons in a single day. Its 120 Soviet-designed Scud and FROG missiles could sustain an hour-long barrage...