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...characters of Madjid's family and makes the audience care about them. Madjid's mother, Maika, bubbles over with the life-force that feeds and clothes her five young children, Madjid and the neighbor's child, as well as taking care of her husband, who has apparently had a stroke that has rendered him helpless. The contrast between Maika's helathy cheer and her husband's thin and trembling weakness portrays the conflict within the family more effectively than any verbal explanation of their condition...
...been with Somalia, which seeks to expand its frontiers at the expense not only of Ethiopia but of other countries too. My meeting with Somali President Siad Barre last January was undertaken at our initiative. Although one cannot expect to wipe away such long-standing problems in one stroke, the beginning has not been without hope...
...shrewd editorial stroke, McClatchy brought back Howard Weaver, now 35, a defector from the News's bad old days. Weaver, who had left to launch a "semiunderground" weekly, says McClatchy interviewed him "to find out what kind of bomb thrower I was." A mighty good one, as events proved...
Anonymous pain vs. heroic pizazz, a crucible vs. a crowd pleaser. A low, labyrinthine, long-abandoned Government compound and a high, bright, popular symbol. The place where the undesirables among the huddled masses were culled out and sent packing; the monument that summarizes in one grand, gilded-age stroke a nation's noblest intentions. The two islands make a compelling yin- and-yankee pair. Alone, neither the Mother of Exiles nor the Island of Tears fairly represents the American story. But together, they tell something like the whole truth...
...tells cheerful lies to Old Grandaddy and worries later that when he finds out the truth, he will lapse into a coma. Babe and Lenny laugh so hard at this that they can hardly spit out the words to tell her that Grandaddy, who has just had another stroke--"Oh, stop! Please! Ha, ha, ha!"--already is in a coma...