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...world. Their shacks are built of cardboard, driftwood, old iron and fraying plastic. Near-naked children play tag among the filthy debris. Only one in three will survive beyond the age of five. Most of the Boa Vista squatters have no formal identity papers. They have to beg, steal or barter for food and clothing. Motorists who drive along the potholed road below the cliff-dwellers look the other way. "Yes, we know about Boa Vista," said a U.N. aid official, "but it's regarded as a no-go security risk. You get out of your car and they...
...McCain, who opened the debate Monday afternoon with a near-sentimental litany of all the people to thank "as I beg their indulgence again," puts his bill's chances of passage at 60 percent. Take a guess whether after two weeks of floor show - at the scheduled rate of one amendment every three hours - those odds go up or down...
...build until Code compliance became standard in 1934. The self-censorship mechanism was in place, and it dominated major U.S. releases without exception until 1953, when Otto Preminger used the word "virgin" in "The Moon Is Blue" and got away with it. Even David O. Selznick had to beg Hayes Office approval for the final "I don't give a damn" in "Gone With the Wind." The Code insured that all married couples used twin beds, that no kiss lasted longer than 10 seconds, and that crime never paid. (Network television seems to be the last venue where...
...short, the Grille has suffered enough. It should be allowed to pay its fine and its debt to society. No good can come from briefly closing an institution which, these few flukes aside, has always served alcohol only to those mature enough to enjoy it properly. We earnestly beg the commission to show mercy to this shamed institution, to allow it the chance to rebuild its good name and to refrain from imposing a temporary suspension of its liquor license...
...their homes. A young woman, barely out of her teens, squats by the side of the highway not far from the sea bridge that connects Kutch to Saurashtra. She has a naked baby in one arm; the other is outstretched, seeking alms. But she obviously has no experience in begging, because she's a good 10 m from the road, too far to be noticed by drivers whizzing past at 100 km/h. Passing that way a week later, I see her again, still sitting a long way from the tarmac. This time I stop. She only speaks Kutchi, the local...