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...villages like Ganthier and Petit Trou de Nippes, half the young men live in the brush. They return to town in the morning, after the army patrols have stopped, to collect food and money from their parents. In Ganthier, the local priest says the men fled after soldiers discovered that they had formed a group to discuss politics. "They just want to kill somebody," he says. "The people are living in hell." Even the mayor of Port-au-Prince, Evans Paul, lives in hiding. Ever since paramilitary thugs shot up city hall last September, he has not returned...
...curtail auto traffic and raise money for repairs, many park managers aim to charge higher entrance fees. As vacation destinations, the parks remain an absolute bargain, usually costing only $5 to $10 a vehicle. Half the national parks charge nothing at all. A park-service proposal to collect entry fees on a per-person basis, instead of per vehicle, would raise about $73 million to help offset the repeated budget cuts that have decimated the ranks of rangers and depleted maintenance programs...
...rent control Campaign for Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection successfully challenges the validity of the signatures, any referendum would be delayed at least a year, as the anti-rent control Homeowners Coalition would be forced to re-collect signatures...
...hearing played itself out to adjournment last week, police continued to collect evidence, at one point leaving Simpson's house with three grocery bags of material and towing away his Bentley. The prosecution said it will not produce at the hearing what most people expect to be the crucial evidence -- the results of DNA testing of bloodstains that could prove whether Simpson was at the scene of the crime or whether blood from the victims was found in his car or at his home...
There are ghosts everywhere. Sparkling incense marks the entrance to the ! "Jungle of Screaming Souls," where the trees and plants "moan a ghostly music," and where Kien watches his battalion wiped out in hand-to-hand combat. He returns years later as part of a Vietnamese team to collect the remains of his men and finds that their souls are still loose, like his memories, "wandering in every corner and bush in the jungle . . . refusing to depart for the Other World." In Kien's mind, asleep or awake, in battle or in peace, the dead talk, and he talks back...