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...used to spending long hours of exile alone in his small apartment, playing the guitar, taping weekly radio speeches and talking on the phone to faraway friends, life changed abruptly last week. From the moment Bill Clinton finally decided to restore him to power, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the duly elected President of Haiti, found himself bustling about the heady business of a chief of state. He has been told to be ready to fly home within days of the U.S. takeover...
More and more Americans are discovering that faraway places can yield up challenging occupations. Gregory Piccininno, 29, a New Jersey native and a graduate of the London Business School, found himself drawn to what he calls the "savage capitalism" of Brazil. He works for a Brazilian financial firm in Rio de Janeiro, socializes mostly with local friends, with whom he speaks Portuguese, and has no plans to leave anytime soon. "As a non-Brazilian, I get a lot of respect, if for nothing else than my abilities in English," he says...
...forlorn swains and pining maidens fill the Science Center basement to e-mail their loved ones at other colleges or back at home. Bathed in the unearthly glow of the monitor screens, they are oblivious to the furious click-clack of the keyboard as Internet connects them to their faraway, spiritual halves. Yet somehow, this mode of communication seems to lack a true personal touch, a romantic passion. Perhaps it is the constant, invasive hum of the terminals and the harsh florescent lights. Or the horde of computer hacker sitting in the other seats. In any case, Eliot House Drama...
...those too poor to visit St. Bart's and too timid to ski Killington this break, a perfect getaway lies just three miles off Cape Cod--not the faraway island of Nantucket, but nearby Martha's Vineyard...
...student complained that the casino nearestto Harvard, Foxwoods in Connecticut, is too faraway...