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...others hope, and they bombarded the U.S. embassy in Manila with citizenship applications. Older Amerasian girls traded on their exotic-but-familiar looks to marry serving soldiers, later settling in prosaic places like Oklahoma City and Fort Wayne. But with the base gone, so are the servicemen and the link to American passports. Few of the Europeans or Americans who descend on Angeles these days stay long enough to leave more than a vague sense of identity?and sometimes a souvenir baby. Four-year-old Helen, with her dirty blond hair and pink cheeks, could be half-American, half-English...
...official CBGB web site for pictures and Hilly Kristal's own serialized testimony. Link from there to an online edition of Mojo Magazine from the U.K. for the most coherent and well-written history of early punk that I've seen anywhere...
...straight from the Brits too—no friendly banter with the host, no sympathetic encouragement from cuddly Reege, not even a trace of the good old American dream. This time it was all about authenticity—if we were going to get “The Weakest Link,” we were going to get every last bit of it, even if it meant enduring unpleasant tongue-lashings from that most terrifying of dragonladies, Anne Robinson. The effect, of course, is wonderfully comical. Robinson’s sneers, biting barbs, and unmerciful teasing seems to suggest that...
...Washington has done the right thing by separating the Aegis decision from the spy-plane issue. To link them would be to allow an accidental collision to determine the course of U.S.-China relations. By separating the issues and deciding each one on its own merits, they would have more leeway to avoid worsening relations with Beijing...
...part of the "democratic family" of nations. The plan will call for a permanent council of OAS member countries to monitor challenges to representative democracy around the continent, as well as concrete measures to improve the region's creaking infrastructure, such as upgrading transborder highways and developing an Internet link for doctors. These will cost money: Summit officials put the total at more than $100 million, which will have to be found from such institutions as the Inter-American Development Bank. Latin Americans have balked at linking labor rights and environmental standards to the hemisphere free-trade drive, even...