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There are so many scenarios," Stad said. "These absentee ballots may be coming from businessmen and members of the military, who tend to vote Republican, but they may also be coming from travelers, like Floridian Jews visiting Israel, and academics, who would also be more likely to vote for Gore...
...repeated the gesture on Monday. Official spin from the White House: We have no problem with civilian air traffic; those zones are to protect Kurds and Shiites from Iraqi military planes. Still, nobody doubts the significance of the gesture. Not when airliners carrying government officials and businessmen are landing almost daily from Russia, Europe and all over the Arab world (including countries that had fought alongside the U.S. in the Gulf War). And not when Turkey, the staging ground for most U.S. air attacks against Iraq since the Gulf War, moves to reopen a pipeline to pump Baghdad...
...weapon. They can look at your neck, and if they see a pulse rate that disturbs them, they take you to be a suspect. And they use methods which are of questionable constitutionality. I'm fond of saying "I did Russian gangsters in the first movie, and I did businessmen in the second, so why not the police in the third." And I think it may be about the formation of the Street Crimes Unit...
...Sombra Negra (Black Shadow), which has been gunning down deported youths since 1994. Death squads have caught on in Honduras, too, where human rights workers say they've killed over 180 gang members over the past two years. Suspected of being off-duty cops and soldiers hired by local businessmen, these groups are not particularly discriminating. "Any kid who has a tattoo is fair game," says Human Rights Commission member Hugo Maldonado. Sociologist Ernesto Bordales concurs. "The general feeling here is that the only way to deal with the gangs is to kill them...
...Schlesinger can be self-important (the dinners on Martha's Vineyard with movie stars, the lunches at Manhattan's Mortimer's restaurant with the society crowd). He indulges the old New Deal intellectual's habit of bashing business and businessmen in an almost recreational way. (At one point he blithely equates capitalism with sexism and racism.) But even his smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a coworker's journal...