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...authorities will say only that all cases are under review. "You can't just move them lock, stock and barrel to the United States and separate them from their families forevermore," said a State Department official. "You have to find out where each child's family is and go and look for the family." That can be a long, difficult process, says the State Department, which hopes most of the children will be released from the camp by early July...
...hemisphere's last communist begins his evening with a martini. As he plucks the quintessentially American refreshment from the tray, Fidel Castro seems surprisingly muted. Or perhaps it is simply the mark of age: he is still a big man, trim and barrel-chested, but his 68 years are visible in the skin of his face, which is approaching the translucence of old parchment...
...break it," he said. With both movies on hold, he returned to the main menu -- a revolving carousel offering shopping, games, sports, news, movies. He entered a computer-generated shopping mall, complete with a white stucco Crate & Barrel store and the curved glass facade of Sharper Image. He visited a Post Office shop that offered next-day stamp delivery and three-hour package pickup. He popped into the Warner Bros. Studio Store, where he ordered a pair of $10 raspberry-colored baseball caps. He visited the video-game area and played interactive gin rummy with the Willards...
Sure, we may accept the higher rates for a few years, but when things don't magically get better, we begin to get antsy. "All those taxes, and there are still poor people around. The money must all be going to governmental inefficiency and pork-barrel politics." So we vote in a new face who promises to lower taxes, and then a year later we scream when our local fire station closes down for lack of funding. We want solutions, but we don't want to pay for them...
What the maestros heard was a simply gorgeous voice, well-produced, even and lively from top to bottom -- what Solti called "one of the great talents of the last 10 years." The man was a mountain, 6 ft. 3 in., broad-shouldered, barrel-chested, with a clear, open brow and merry eyes. He had easy poise and generous presence onstage. His calendar filled up fast (he now has no openings until...