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...named Richard Holmes, who suggests that we continue to set our clocks back one hour in the fall, but that "spring forward" should be changed to setting clocks back 23 hours--gaining ourselves a much-needed day of rest. Every leap year, we would subtract three days instead of adding one; Holmes' personal vote is those three days be a Monday, a Tuesday and a Wednesday (which sounds good...
Elian's plight has also given Castro, 73, life support. Last fall, el comandante's relevance was dwindling: even as he played host to a summit of Latin American and Iberian leaders, the spotlight fell instead on foreign capitalists and pro-democracy dissidents. Elian's "kidnapping" changed all that. As a result, Cuban politicos privately declare that even if Elian never returns...
...change; don't fight it. What's different about the book, and what explains its vast appeal, perhaps, is its kindergarten imagery. There's cheese, see, which represents what people--in this case characters named Hem and Haw--truly, deeply desire. People get frustrated when the cheese is moved. Instead of standing around and griping, though, people need to get busy finding new cheese, like the mouse characters in the book, Sniff and Scurry. Get it? Of course you do. You already knew...
...from 13% of the population to a tiny 2%, of which half are Orthodox rather than Roman Catholic.) John Paul made no overt attempts to influence the Israeli-Palestinian talks that continue, low key, in Washington. He did not use the trip to announce any dramatic new Vatican policy. Instead, as the week progressed, it became clear that he hoped that while tiptoeing through the political minefields, he could come to this most disputatious of territories and, through the force of his stooped presence and still Herculean will, simply inspire good...
...people, its inhabitants are refugees from the 1948 war that followed Israel's creation and their descendants. The Deheishites, many of whom still carry the keys to homes now housing Israelis or torn down by them, demand repatriation. The Israelis insist that the refugees should receive financial compensation instead--from anyone but Israel. Speaking amid the cinder-block misery, John Paul told a small crowd, "I hope and pray that my visit will bring some comfort in your difficult situation...