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...sign] up to encourage people to complain," said Rick Sarvas, a Lil' Peach checker who works night shifts...
Perhaps it might be a good idea to take a deep breath at this stage and point out that the setup for A Son of the Circus is vastly more elaborate than the preceding suggests. Irving has been known to complain, understandably, about reviews of his books that give away the plots and their attendant surprises. He need not worry this time; the new novel is summary-proof...
...turn back. "These people are out of their minds," he says. "This is a difficult period of the revolution, but I wouldn't even think about doing it, no matter how bad things get here. It's just too dangerous." Felix, 38, manager of a government-run bodega, complains that supplies are the leanest he has ever seen. "I don't see how they can send any less and expect us to survive," he says. He feels guilty when customers complain. "But what can I do?" he asks -- a depressingly familiar refrain throughout Cuba these days...
...three days the weather achieved what Clinton could not, stemming the tide of rafters. On the beach at Guanabo, east of Havana, Saturday night's forecast is for 15-ft. waves and more rain. The balseros along the shore use their time to work on their rafts, dream, complain. Jorge Luis, 36, introduces his raft's crew. "Just because we're discontented, we're considered antisocial," he says. "But in fact we're all professionals. Cuba is like a prison these days. You work one month to eat one day. You . . . " And then he pauses and smiles, surveying one raft...
...black infants." His claim is echoed by adoption experts from Atlanta to Beverly Hills, who contend that the number of white couples adopting black children has shriveled since 1972, when the National Association of Black Social Workers denounced transracial adoption as "cultural genocide." These same agencies and lawyers also complain that there is a paucity of black adoptive families...