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...haven't tried to escape yet, but I'm going to," said Elsa Quintero, 44, a grandmother who fled Cuba on a raft and has been in detention at Guantanamo since Aug. 28. "The 25th of December is a date I'd like to celebrate, and I'll walk across minefields if I have...
Barring any last-minute snafu, the Republican Party will hold its 1996 convention in San Diego. The GOP national committee's site selection panel issued the decision today, authorizing negotiations with city officials to work out any kinks in staging the Aug. 12-15 event there. Even though nothing's final, the full Republican National Committee's vote is considered a formality because the Southern California city has RNC chairman Haley Barbour's enthusiastic backing. Gov. Pete Wilson, the state's top official and a potential presidential candidate, was a popular San Diego mayor.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
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...most provocative pieces we have published in some time was our Aug. 15 cover story arguing that humans are genetically predisposed to sexual infidelity. It drew nearly 800 letters from readers (many predictably indignant), the fourth largest mail response to any story this year. That article was based on a current book that is also stirring debate among readers and scientists: The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life (Pantheon; $27.50). The New York Times called it "a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there...
...word permanent to describe their cease-fire. The term had been demanded last December by both Prime Minister John Major's Conservative government in London and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds as a precondition for any talks with the terrorists of either side. After the I.R.A. cease-fire on Aug. 31, Reynolds backed away from the condition, but Major had Protestant Unionists' fears to assuage...