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...Korean- made boom box. But there are distractions. A crowd is forming on the seawall across the way. "Ven aqui! Ven, mira!" yell the little children, and people are indeed coming and looking. Now there is a crowd of 70, staring down into the water. They laugh, they cheer. Some drivers stop, others honk and yell, "Balseros! Balseros! A Miami! A Miami!" (Rafters! To Miami!) Potuombo scans the scene sourly. "Let the bastards go," he growls. On the radio, Fidel drones...
...pulls out a crossbow. Suddenly the cub squeals; imbedded in its skull, as if in some ghastly Saturday-morning cartoon, is an arrow. The hunter takes his time reloading. Finally, with his second shot, the bear falls to the ground, where the dogs set upon it. The hunters cheer; then one of them cuts open the cub's back, reaches into its body and pulls out the goal of all the butchery: the bear's gallbladder. He grins and holds up the bloody organ as if it were worth its weight in gold. Which...
Show Business: Making audiences cheer and weep, Forrest Gump...
...United States sends six kids to the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong, where a perfect individual score is 42, and together they score 252, does the country have reason to cheer...
...what's to cheer about? Well, one can always celebrate the sheer presence of extraordinary individual achievement. Mientka notes that several of his charges solved their problems in ways unanticipated by the judges. "You can almost see what happened in their cranium," he says. "And it's quite amazing. The point is, gosh, how could a student ever think of this...