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...most terrifying episode in a week when Haitians fled their stricken country in record numbers. More than 5,000 refugees took to boats during the week; on Monday alone, 1,486 were picked up at sea, the largest single number in one day since the September 1991 military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior...
Against Colombia, the U.S. team realized its own fantasy through luck and pluck. For starters, it was playing a stricken team: Colombia, some of whose local teams have been sponsored by drug lords. Just before the game, defensive back Jaime Gabriel Gomez was removed from the lineup because his family in Medellin had been threatened with death if he played. After the defeat, coach Francisco Maturano said, "The team played bad on purpose. I don't know...
Wechsler saved the details of his flight for a forthcoming book on the subject, but he said in a phone interview from Berlin that he left Bavaria because he became "panic stricken and frightened" at the prospect of being sent to Fort Leavenworth, a notorious military prison...
Populism can display both good and bad qualities. Huey Long transformed the state of Louisiana, aiding thousands of poverty-stricken and poorly educated citizens. Yet at the same time, he nearly became an American despot...
...South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness of her siblings and the liveliness of city street life. In the end, as if to make up for missed dramatic opportunities, Carolyn Carmichael is suddenly stricken with an undefined terminal illness. But fear, grief, loss -- the powerful emotions bound to be loosed by this sudden realization of childhood's most terrifying fantasy -- are avoided by Lee. Carolyn dies quietly offscreen. Her children, and the movie, are denied emotional release...