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...white sands of Hallandale beach on the roof of a bus, which they had saved their money for years to buy. When they finally saw lights after eight days at sea, "we didn't know it was Miami, but we knew it couldn't be Havana," says Jorge Luis Diaz, 29, "because there's no electricity there, and no lights." As they gratefully reunited with family members in Little Havana, Attorney General Reno was announcing the new U.S. detention policy. Unaware of their close call, they all had one goal in mind. "To work!" they yelled in chorus...
...Mask he plays Stanley Ipkiss, who puts an ancient mask on his face and is transformed from bank-clerk dweeb to zoot-suited superdude, genially terrorizing Edge City and winning the plushly encased heart of a gun moll (Cameron Diaz). The computer wizards at Industrial Light & Magic help alchemize this ragged film into a megamorphic extravaganza. But Carrey doesn't need any cybernetics or silicon to rubberize his limbs. He is his own best special effect, the first star who is a live-action toon...
...were one-third the $300 million spent in 1989, a gap that will hardly be bridged by an expected $30 million worth of humanitarian donations from abroad. "If you go to a medical center, you will see how conditions have deteriorated," says Public Health Vice Minister Ramon Diaz Vallina. In many cases, diagnostic equipment stands idle for lack of spare parts and readout paper. Mammograms were cut back last year because of chronic X-ray-film shortages...
...Mexico's gross domestic product has grown from $2,525 per capita in 1989 to $4,324 last year, but the encouraging statistics are not what they seem. "Behind those numbers," development expert Alberto Diaz Cayeros wrote recently, "is hidden the sad reality -- which Chiapas has shown in its most extreme expression -- that Mexico is one of the most unequal countries in the world...
...something that I'm very interested in, especially since I've gotten to Harvard, seeing racial dynamics on campus," says Estella Diaz '97. "There's a bunch of different kinds of people here but they hardly ever mingle. "It's kind of a pretend diversity...