Word: caravans
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...account of the Honorable Shimon Peres’s speech at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (News, “Peres Expresses Hope for Mideast Peace,” Oct. 21): The article failed to mention the crucial point that this event launched Caravan for Democracy’s third year of generating constructive dialogue about the Middle East on college campuses throughout the United States. Mr. Peres’s appearance at the Forum was just one example of what is in fact a nationwide initiative called Caravan for Democracy, a program which brings high...
...election, need look no further than the 17 short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman...
...doing interviews--I was taking depositions." He says he found witnesses, including a woman who asserts on film that she saw a black man aiding the murderers' search for Till, and that Milam's green Chevy pickup was not alone when leaving the kidnapping, but one of a "caravan." Beauchamp eventually concluded that as many as 11 people--six of them white and five black--were complicit, and presented his findings to Mississippi authorities in February. Quizzed about the witness count last week, local district attorney Joyce Chiles replied, "That number would probably best come from Keith Beauchamp. The only...
...this time, Mr. Caravan is only being charged with one LCD projector theft,” Catalano said. “But he is the prime suspect in several other LCD projector thefts and all the thefts are still under investigation...
...Catalano said that because Caravan is suspected of involvement in several other thefts, his arrest might lead to a decline in the number of LCD projector thefts...