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...does a far more insidious job of collecting information than the Census, we love answering those Web polls about sports and which Gore girl is hottest. And though we like the media even less than the government, we answer exit polls and tell TV reporters our opinion about Elian Gonzalez even if we clearly don't have...
...Cuba. The two have known each other since the age of three, and Hanser, 6, weeps at hearing the name of his friend. He knows his best friend has been "kidnapped," a frightening crime, unheard of in Cuba. He perks up only when his teacher reminds him how happy Elian will be to see how carefully Hanser has watched out for him. For no one has been allowed to take Elian's place. His chair remains unoccupied, a white sign with blue letters declaring: THIS CHAIR IS UNTOUCHABLE. Hanser and his classmates try to talk only of "when Elian comes...
...Cardenas, that time is long overdue. "The law of the sea is that you provide shelter for a shipwreck and take him home," says Jorge, 75, a fisherman. "More so in the case of a child." And while they await his return, the citizens of Cardenas are afraid that Elian may no longer be himself because he has not had a chance to grieve for his mother, lost at sea during her voyage to Florida. They imagine the voices he heard as the boat went down, the prayers and the screaming and the long loneliness as he floated...
...been paraded about for the press in America. In fact, the international press has chosen to parade around Cardenas as well, sticking mikes and cameras in the face of every possible source and stalking about the small city of 94,000 people. And so, when Elian returns, he will probably be kept in the capital of Havana, together with family, friends and schoolmates, as well as psychiatrists and pediatricians. Alas for Elian and Cardenas, even when he returns, he will not be home...
DOLLY MASCARENAS is a TIME stringer who has interviewed key figures in the Elian Gonzalez story, and writes this week from Elian's hometown. She is worried about Elian: "He hasn't been allowed to grieve for his mother. The people in Miami parade him around, and the ones in Cuba have made a symbol out of him. What's going to happen to him in five years?" She's chagrined that a child now symbolizes the division between Cubans and Cuban Americans...