Word: drownings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conjured up images of last fall and early winter, when Palestinian attacks, mostly suicide bombings, claimed 53 victims over four months. The violence nearly sank the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as Israeli public opinion turned against expanding Palestinian self-rule. Now the question is again alive: Will the bloodletting drown the goodwill? "The peace process will go on," says a U.S. State Department official, "but how long can the Israelis tolerate these attacks?" Israel may have bought some time with the arrest of the 10 Hamas members, plus the 20 more picked up after the Jerusalem bombing. Among those detained...
Jerome John Garcia was born in San Francisco to a Spanish immigrant jazz musician and a nurse; they named the boy for songwriter Jerome Kern. When Jerry was nine, Joe Garcia died in a fishing accident. "He watched his father drown," Kesey notes. "That has always been in his music--the darkness, the next life. It reaches out, squeezes your shoulder, holds you close, and gives you strength to go on when you're grieving...
...medical attention or had a parent already in the States. Since the island has officially returned to democratic rule, immigration officials say, Haitians don't qualify for humanitarian parole. Some of these children were orphaned in Haiti, and set to sea alone or with friends; others saw their parents drown. Because of the violence and deprivation they have experienced, many of the kids are terrified of going back to Haiti. Yet the official U.S. policy for these children is to locate relatives in Haiti and send the kids to them. So far, 60 Haitian children have been returned. But last...
...obscures her feelings (and her vocal shortcomings) with screaming and squealing. The title track has an absorbing groove, but Harvey's self-consciously raw and distorted vocals push listeners away. The throbbing, mysterious Down by the Water is another melodically intriguing tune, though Harvey's mannered vocals nearly drown it. Harvey, 25, does occasionally spin out a gratifying guitar riff; but for the most part, she's unable to style her music with subtlety or grace. Harvey would do well to listen to jazz diva Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light 'til Dawn. Wilson's bluesy, modernist, intelligent vocalizing is less...
Deep inside each consensus-building, big-tent Republican running for President lies the awful knowledge that one false step into the swamp of abortion politics can drown you. Say anything but that you are pro-life in the primaries and you will lose the nomination, but scare the pro-choicers and you may lose the election. So what's a candidate to do? Robert Dole, Phil Gramm and Lamar Alexander all claim the pro-life label, but not the mantle. They wrinkle their noses, say they personally don't like abortion-as if a personal preference substitutes for a clear...