Word: piloting
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What must this small boy, a child who loves nothing more than making and flying kites in the warm Cuban brisa, have thought during his hours on the water? And later, as he paraded before the world on television--at Disney World, in school, playing "rescue pilot" with his cousins in the backyard--it seemed possible to read everything, anything, in his deep eyes: fear, joy, courage...
...chummier. Castro stoked Cubans' anger over Elian for domestic benefit and diplomatic leverage, but he was quietly acting more neighborly. When Cuban immigrants held at a Louisiana prison took hostages just before Christmas, Castro agreed to take the prisoners back after their surrender. When a former South Vietnamese fighter pilot flew over Havana early this month to drop anti-Castro leaflets, Castro's air force didn't blow...
...digital camera and put on a CD, to a screen in his home in Connecticut, where the kids are playing Pokemon (don't ask) or dancing to Livin' la Vida Loca (don't ask), before he trades a hundred shares of Microsoft, transfers some cash, buys a Palm Pilot for his wife (who's doing Pilates at the health club this afternoon), auctions off the cabin in Vermont, then orders one set of tickets to a black-tie dinner for breast cancer and another to the latest off-off-off-Broadway play, about a man talking on a cell phone...