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...that matter, after Reagan's Feelgood Era, did the Republicans feel so terrible? It was morning after in America. George Bush was understandably puzzled, almost to the point of paralysis. He thought he had done everything right -- won the cold war, won a hot war, made a showy raid on Panama, brought down the yellow ribbons, brought on the victory parades. Unlike the Kennedys with Castro, Carter with Khomeini or Reagan with Gaddafi, Bush had got his man, the first tyrant to bother him -- he ran Noriega to ground in Panama's papal nunciature, tortured him with rock music...
...sowed terror throughout the country during a 12-year campaign that took 25,000 lives, damaged $22 billion worth of property and left some Peruvians fearing that his "forces of history" might achieve victory. That is, until last week -- when Guzman was captured by government forces in a bloodless raid on a modest house in one of Lima's middle-class neighborhoods...
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...closet were pretty sure they had pulled a fast one. Granted, the cash was fake, but Edwards and her pupils had been using the money to learn some basic lessons in economics. Now, instead of studying supply and demand, the class was busy congratulating the thieves on their daring raid. Edwards' response? She held an auction -- only ersatz dollars allowed. The students' admiration swiftly evaporated as boxes of candy and toys went on the block and the pirates began buying up everything in sight. More effective than any punishment Edwards could have imposed, the furious debate that ensued on ethics...
...gentle paranoid (Dan Aykroyd) who believes the same group that killed Jack Kennedy also framed Pete Rose; a blind computer whiz (David Strathairn) whose keyboard -- and Playboy -- are in Braille; and a kid (River Phoenix) who demonstrated his personal best when he illegally improved his grades in a raid on his school's mainframe...