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...Hundreds Flee Sarajevo...
Those who do not love Fidel have few options: wait until he dies, or flee. Ricardo and Raul are scheming to escape by sea, when they are not drunk on bootleg rum. Quaffing cocktails and beer at Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find...
...easy to flee back to Tiffany, that bastion of riskless excellence. But bravely I hold my ground on 47th Street, like a World War I doughboy dug in on the Marne, because I have finally absorbed an enduring life lesson: children play with the box; adults care about what's inside. So to Tiffany Ariana Trump, I wish a childhood filled with blue boxes with her first name on them. And if in later life she feels compelled to live up to her first name, may she skip the diamonds and instead open a homey little restaurant. Anyone for Breakfast...
Neither Vito nor the audience entirely understands what's happening to him. All he (and we) know is that he must flee for his life. And therein lies the key to this film's success. For Carlei wants to thrust us into the mind of this almost completely silent boy. He gives us no more information than Vito acquires, in bits and pieces, as he flees to Rome in search of something, somebody -- we're not sure. Carlei's camera is often radically subjective, seeing through Vito's eyes as the boy rushes panicked through the streets. Equally often...
...Haiti is merely tactical, a reflection of the assumption that those who enjoy liberty will stay put. Meanwhile on the ground, the situation worsens daily. "Anyone can be killed at any time," says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled President, and late-night disappearances are becoming common. Foreigners can flee at will, and many are doing so, including those charged with monitoring human-rights violations, but the thousands of Haitians who have been systematically repressed since the 1991 military coup are stuck. No matter, says the President who ran on a platform of putting people first -- including, not incidentally, the Haitian...