Word: soiled
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...family feud over Cuban boat boy Elian Gonzalez is now taking place on American soil. Both of the six-year-old's grandmothers flew in to New York Friday and came out swinging against their relatives in Miami who're fighting to keep their grandson in the U.S. "I have heard people say that it was the will of the mother that Elian be in the U.S., but I know her better than anyone," said Raquel Rodriguez, mother of Elian's late mother. "If she made that trip it was because she had a person living with...
...appears to be enforcing immigration accords more stringently. Those require that the U.S. send back any Cuban rafter intercepted at sea. But Washington has indulged--and Havana has railed at--a loophole known as the "wet feet, dry feet" rule, which allows any Cuban who makes it onto U.S. soil to claim asylum. That has only encouraged illegal balseros--rafters like Elian and his mother--to attempt the voyage across the straits. U.S. immigration officials in Miami tell TIME that "wet feet, dry feet" may come under serious review...
...worthwhile," wrote Phillips some 80 years ago, when marble temples of culture were sprouting like didactic mushrooms from the American soil, "to reverse the usual process of popularizing an art gallery. Instead of the academic grandeur of marble halls and stairways and miles of chairless spaces, with low standards and popular attractions to draw the crowds, we plan to try the effect of domestic architecture, of rooms small or at least livable." In fact, Phillips and his artist wife Marjorie started the gallery in their own house, and although since its founding in 1921 it has grown some...