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...been said that totalitarianism is dead when a shopkeeper hangs and ant-government sign in his storefront window without fear of repercussion. Although Cub has not yet reached that stage, it is rapidly approaching it. Indeed, open criticism of Fidel Castro has now spread beyond the radio stations and restaurants of Miami to the crowded streets of Havana...
...when he and a rodeo cowboy named George Birdwell both try, by storyteller's coincidence, to rob the Earlsboro, Oklahoma, bank at the same time. Meeting cute is what Hollywood calls this: "'Sir, I was here first -- had my gun out before you even got to the teller's window,' the cowboy pointed out. 'That was 'cause I was polite and held the door for you,' Charley reminded...
...course, there was another potential source of inspiration a bit closer at hand--the stuffed sun-bleached bunny which sits on Knowles' office window ledge, unlike most Harvard students, didn't abandon him for an internship after May finals...
...late in Old Havana, and Calle Obispo is shrouded in darkness as Jorge, who fears giving his real name, walks down the narrow street. Once a fashionable shopping avenue, Obispo is now lined with decayed buildings. Jorge passes a tourist store, where three young Cubans are staring at a window display of souvenirs that would cost them the equivalent of several months' salary. At the corner, a young man whispers, "Pizza, pizza," hoping to attract customers to an illegal private restaurant. At 20 pesos, the price of a pie equals what Jorge earns in two days. Light spills...
While President Clinton and his family slept in Blair House across the street, a Maryland man stole a single engine plane from a small airport near Baltimore, flew into protected federal airspace and crashed into the White House two floors below the President's bedroom window at 1:49 a.m. Several federal agencies are furiously investigating the event, in which the 38-year-old pilot, Frank Eugene Corder, was killed. The Secret Service said this afternoon that Corder, a freight truck driver, had "a prior history of mental illness" and had been distraught over the death of his father...