Word: victor
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...Robin Hood mystique and radical chic. In 1990 the group staged its most spectacular stunt when nearly 50 members tunneled out of the Canto Grande prison near Lima, supposedly the nation's most secure jail. The crowning indignity was that the operation was videotaped by the escapees, who included Victor Polay, Tupac Amaru's top leader at the time...
...companies took several hard hits, but it did not matter. Richard Kluger's Ashes to Ashes, a comprehensive condemnation of the industry, was published. Liggett and Meyers settled a lawsuit--the first time ever for a tobacco company. A former Brown & Williamson executive turned whistle-blower. The life of Victor Crawford, a former tobacco lobbyist, came to an end from cancer of the throat after he used his final years valiantly lecturing about the evils of smoking. Science proved the direct link between smoking and lung cancer. The end result of such events was that smoking increased among children...
...with technological bells and whistles. Mormon sites offer links to vast genealogical databases, while YaaleVe' Yavo, an Orthodox Jewish site, forwards E-mailed prayers to Jerusalem, where they are affixed to the Western Wall. Two Websites are devoted to Cao Daiism, the tiny Vietnamese sect that worships French novelist Victor Hugo as a saint, and a handful probe the mysteries of Jainism, an Indian religion in which (as one learns on the Net) the truly faithful sweep the ground with a small broom to avoid accidentally stepping on insects or other hapless creatures. Even the famously technophobic Amish are represented...
...official title, chief of the presidential administration, suggests a high-level aide, but that understates his clout. Chubais, 41, has pushed out one rival, the populist general Alexander Lebed, and--for the time being at least--has outmaneuvered another, the uncharismatic but formidable Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin. During the months of Yeltsin's illness, Chubais controlled access to the President so tightly that his enemies dubbed him "the Regent...
...VICTOR MORALES (D) Senate Challenger...