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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
 '' For longer than anyone knows, the Seri Indians of Sonora have repulsed the incursions of interlopers: other tribes early on, then Spanish Conquistadores and friars, Mexican dictators, priests and revolutionaries, marauding bands of killers and thieves, and the often indistinguishable "modern" Mexican governments of various covetous temperaments. |
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Saturday, 30 June 2007 |
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Looking over the shoulder of George Washington as he took command of the revolutionary army at Cambridge, June 2, 1775, one sees an undisciplined, untrained militia that wanted to name its own officers and serve only under those from their own colony. There was also desperate, frequently corrupt, lack of supplies. |
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Saturday, 23 June 2007 |
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On Tuesday, rain, escorted by an accompaniment of distant rumbling, arrived at 10 a.m. and was soon coming down in earnest. But it retreated around 1 p.m., dwindling into on-again, off-again chispas. |
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
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Rainy season storms – lightning flashes, wind, barrages of thunder, torrents lashing car windows. They all rev up nerves, pushing motorists to rush to get to their destinations. Wrong! Drive more slowly. Avoid skidding on straight and smooth rain- and oil- slicked surfaces, or pirouetting into curves and street-corner turns, doing 180s when trying to stop. Tension may also prompt foreigners to forget hard-won emergency Spanish: English-speakers should always carry a phrase book and pocket dictionary. |
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