Word: escapees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Samper's problems got no sympathy in Washington, where he has long been considered too soft on drug traders. The State Department dismissed the storm in Bogota as an "internal" issue, but Republican Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, demanded that Colombia be "decertified," or given a...
Kincaid is the most personal of writers, and by now most readers will follow the particulars of a new novel from her with one eye on what they know of her unlikely history: a West Indian black, raised on Antigua, who--deep breath here--left home at 17 to escape...
But it is never clear whether that violence is going to be directed against Madame or by one sister against another. Claire, the younger sister, is more resolute in her hatred of Madame, and seems willing to actually carry out the murder they continually plot; Solange wavers between resentment of...
Why these outbreaks of irrationalism? Because in a highly technological age, where not just production but now information and thought itself are being mechanized, the need for escape is powerful. The world is too much with us. William Wordsworth yearned "to be a pagan, suckled in a creed outworn." We...
In a bold reprise of the bloody raid on a Russian hospital in Budyonnovsk last June, hundreds of Chechen rebels seized a hospital in another Russian town, Kizlyar, taking more than 3,000 hostages and killing dozens more in the process. Demanding the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Chechnya...