Word: sonly
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...Gore's attempt to jump the fence may backfire on him a lot sooner than the election, however, as negotiations between Washington and Havana continue over Juan Miguel Gonzalez's coming to the U.S. to take custody of his son during the appeal process. Indications are that even once the father arrives, rather than hand Elian over, the Miami relatives plan to insist on a custody battle in a Florida family court - something Juan Miguel Gonzalez is unlikely ever to accept. That would leave the vice president in the uncomfortable position of supporting the separation of a child from...
Narayan is one such recruit. The son of a farmer, he went off to college carrying his family's hopes that he would become a lawyer. For a while, Narayan tried to play the part--"I would wear ties, go out drinking with my friends and keep looking for fun"--but he soon fell into the company of some RSS members. "I began to understand the emptiness of my life," he says. "I decided to struggle for the preservation of our glorious culture, which is under threat...
...recalls how the suffering in the Rwandan refugee camps in 1994 eventually hardened people there to death. "One day I saw a man walking with a package in his hands. He tossed the package into a mass grave. I asked him what he had thrown there. He said, 'My son, who died.' Then he went on chatting with his friend." From scenes like that, Salgado learned to worry about one of the greatest human capabilities, adaptation. "We can adapt ourselves to any situation," he laments, "and believe that this is a normal life...
Diallo's mother may lament the fact that no one got to know her son through the trial testimony, but court is not a talk show. And if civil rights activist Al Sharpton really wants to effect change in the New York police, he could probably be more influential by being silent rather than delivering hostile tirades. TIM LAITINEN Arlington, Texas...
...late 1970s, and Sterling Lung, 26, the son of Chinese immigrants, believes he has struggled free from the clutches of his parents' old-fashioned expectations. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where, he says, he was named "most likely to serve," Sterling is the chef at the Richfield Ladies' Club in green and tastefully affluent Connecticut. When one of the ladies praises his ponytail and guesses that he wears it in honor of his forebears back in China, Sterling muses, "My forebears? Think Beatles, Jerry Garcia...