Word: shipwreck
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...first six months, the nation argued the fate of Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old miracle child rescued off the Florida coast after a shipwreck had killed his mother and 10 others as they fled Cuba. The argument boiled down to family vs. freedom--was the boy better off in Cuba with his father or in Miami with relatives?--and vented long-dormant cold war-era passions. The boy and his father finally returned to Cuba in June, but the argument lives...
...victor. "I felt I could do something more. That is what I tried in the final," he said. The absence of Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson won't take the shine off his new piece of jewelry, either. "As you know, there was a tragedy in Greece recently [a shipwreck that killed more than 50 people], and this will help relieve some of the pain people are feeling...
...Rachel Eisenhaure '02, Rodgers and Hart's jazzy 1965 tribute to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors uses the plot (and, in some places, borrows heavily from the text) of the earlier play. Two sets of identical twins-one the servant and one the master-are separated in a shipwreck during infancy. Their father/master, Aegean, dedicates his life to reuniting his splintered family. To complicate matters, he arrives in the forbidden city of Ephesus, for which he is sentenced to die. That very day, his son Antipholus (Ari Appel '03) arrives, similarly searching for his brother who, conveniently enough, is also...
When Juan Miguel learned that Elian had survived the shipwreck and was safely in the hands of the Miami branch of the family, Lazaro and other family members immediately began quietly working out how father and son would be reunited. But that was before Castro began making his public demands that the Miami family return the boy, and before the leaders of the exile community swooped down on Lazaro's small house in Little Havana and drew the family deep into the local political swamps. Robinson Crusoe did not have the misfortune of washing ashore in a swing state...
...people of Cardenas, that time is long overdue. "The law of the sea is that you provide shelter for a shipwreck and take him home," says Jorge, 75, a fisherman. "More so in the case of a child." And while they await his return, the citizens of Cardenas are afraid that Elian may no longer be himself because he has not had a chance to grieve for his mother, lost at sea during her voyage to Florida. They imagine the voices he heard as the boat went down, the prayers and the screaming and the long loneliness as he floated...