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That was the story of the Harvard offense all night. Its numbers were unspectacular--take its 37.5 field goal percentage--but it did the job, keeping the Huskies at bay...
Faced with 4,400 Haitians living at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. government today said that any of those refugees who agree by Jan. 5 to return home will get $80 and job opportunities. Those who turn down the offer will be forced to return without the benefits. Most of the remaining Guantanamo refugees -- there were as many as 20,000 before the Haitian military leadership abandoned their posts in September -- are seeking resettlement...
...Bird Artist by Howard Norman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Here's a marvelously operatic novel, roiling with outrageous men and women and with jealousy, revenge, gunfire, deadly sea swells and lust in a lighthouse, all set in the tiny Newfoundland community of Witless Bay (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock) just after the turn of the century. The author writes well against this florid grain, producing extravagant melodrama in language that is strict, laconic and evocative...
...boat people is that many of those who risked their lives to get to the U.S. aboard rickety, homemade craft are taking to the water again. This time, though, they are heading back to Cuba. They lay their cots over the barbed wire that blocks their path to Guantanamo Bay. If they reach the water and swim to the other side, they'll be in Cuban territory...
Misael Orduna Cecilda, a 24-year-old ice-cream vendor from Havana, made an unsuccessful break for it three weeks ago. He sprinted 25 yds. to the edge of a steep cliff, then jumped into the bay. The swirling currents quickly sapped his strength. He waved to a Coast Guard cutter to hoist him aboard. "The problem is, our goal was get to the U.S. as fast as possible," said Cecilda, fingering a scar on his left leg where he cut himself on the barbed wire. "Now we're stuck here, and all we can do is think about...