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MIAMI: SWAT teams surrounded a houseboat tonight some two miles from Gianni Versace's home after a caretaker surprised an intruder and then reported a gunshot. Aboard the boat, police after two initial searches found the body of a young man closely resembling Andrew Cunanan who had killed himself with a gunshot. Two investigative teams are currently on the boat, and attempts to positively identify the body are underway...
PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia: The blockade of an Alaskan ferry ended today after the Canadian government promised disgruntled fishermen in British Columbia that it would pressure the United States to reopen negotiations on Pacific salmon. As the 300-boat blockade broke apart, the ferry Malaspina departed the harbor with a blast of its horns, ending a siege which kept about 135 passengers captive since Saturday. The ferry had been held hostage by Canadian fishermen who claim U.S. fishing fleets are violating a 1985 treaty on salmon fishing by netting the choicest fish in the ocean as they swim to Canada...
BRATTAHLID, Greenland: Vikings: not just in Minnesota anymore. Travel writer W. Hodding Carter and 11 other hardy souls set off today on a 1,900 mile trip to retrace the voyage of Viking explorer Leif Ericsson from Greenland to present-day Newfoundland. Squeezed into a 54-foot wooden boat (called a "knarr"), expedition members will chart their course by the stars and sun and dine on the succulent Viking staples of freshly caught fish and moss and lichens to be gathered at beaches along the way. In true Viking style, crew members will rely on just six oars...
While change makes people uneasy, prosperity makes them adventurous. Highway 50's towns are settled and unsettled by the heirs of the Forty-Niners, the newly liberated telecommuters and mutual-fund-toting retirees and boat people homesteading in Garden City, Kans., writing a Vietnamese-language instruction manual for Windows 95 and declaring with a smile, "We are searching for freedom"--delighted by both the cliche and the profound truth behind...
...retains a disarming faith that musicals are still a vital art form that can move people and convey serious messages. "Ragtime, Show Boat and Parade are all strong indictments of racism and anti-Semitism," says Drabinsky. "I don't know of any other medium that can make that statement as indelibly powerful as musical theater. Certainly the film studios aren't doing it. They back away all the time." Drabinsky doesn't back away; Ragtime is the latest and best proof of that...