Word: secrets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...weeks into Fujimori's landmark third term as president, after he was elected in May and inaugurated this July. Although he did not say how soon the new elections would be held, Fujimori's decision to step down came when a videotape surfaced showing the Chief of Peru's Secret Service bribing a Peruvian lawmaker in attempts to get him to ally with Fujimori's political party...
There is no doubt that Fujimori's pending resignation will bode well for Peru. The Secret Service, the body responsible for carrying out many of the President's civil-rights violations, will be dismantled, creating a safer environment for bipartisan politics and a free press. Because of its economic stability, the nation will most likely be able to build a stable democratic government relatively quickly. In one of the most underdeveloped and bureaucratically corrupt regions of the world, Peru will be able to serve as a model for other Latin American nations to emulate in the development of their governmental...
...process follows established precedent, the letter is the only contact most members of the Harvard community will have with the search committee, which unlike some of its counterparts at other schools does not include students or faculty in its top-secret deliberations...
Malda has taken the idea of what news was, hacked it open and rebuilt it for the Internet age. Slashdot's secret weapon is the collaborative power of the Web. Malda and the other editors don't write the site's stories. Instead it is Slashdot's readers who send in the news. In effect, Malda has an army of reporters working for him, and as a result, Slashdot often scoops the mainstream media. Case in point: when Netscape decided to give away the source code of its browser, one of the biggest tech stories of 1998, Slashdot was first...
...young clergyman is described as having the face of "a sheep with a secret sorrow." Sociopolitical generalization? This is as close as Wodehouse gets: "Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons...