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...Orduna Cecilda, a 24-year-old ice-cream vendor from Havana, made an unsuccessful break for it three weeks ago. He sprinted 25 yds. to the edge of a steep cliff, then jumped into the bay. The swirling currents quickly sapped his strength. He waved to a Coast Guard cutter to hoist him aboard. "The problem is, our goal was get to the U.S. as fast as possible," said Cecilda, fingering a scar on his left leg where he cut himself on the barbed wire. "Now we're stuck here, and all we can do is think about our families...
...there a more stimulating, captivating and exasperating pianist than Sviatoslav Richter? When the reclusive Ukrainian-born musician -- the last of the Soviet-era superstars -- is good, he's very, very good. And when he's bad, he's horrid. But in an age of cookie-cutter pianists, each playing the same program in the same way, Richter, at least, is gloriously himself...
...Outside Moderates: Two newly re-elected Governors, William Weld in Massachusetts and Pete Wilson in California, have proved that government works. Both are fiscal conservatives and social moderates. They are pro- choice. "Most of the possibilities will be cookie-cutter candidates running to the right to get well with the Christian Coalition, which makes up about 25% of the nominating electorate," says G.O.P. consultant Roger Stone. "There's room for a pro-choice Republican like Weld or Wilson, and the social issues have always been big in the primaries." But Wilson could have trouble even at home. California conservatives supported...
They are two cookies from the same cutter. Both are Harvard alumni with politically valuable surnames who insist they fit within their traditional party ideologies, even though they do not. Both are also longtime statehouse denizens out of touch with the citizens of the commonwealth. Both have shown surprising political ineptitude. And neither deserves our endorsement for governor...
Professors' biggest fear was a cookie-cutter complex, shoehorning each department into a similar office suite, Price says...