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...launched in the age of radio, remains a Midwestern phenomenon, and the setting of this novel keeps with Keillor's emphasis on rural storytelling. But along with Keillor's fondness for the land that "brung" him is his simultaneous desire to flee to the big city. The Law of the Provinces, Keillor writes in We Are Still Married, is this: Don't think you're somebody. If you were you wouldn't be here, you'd be on the coast...
Frank, like Keillor, does flee the Midwest for New York City. But though the Keillor voice has become a legendary trademark, the Keillor face (with his larger than human eyebrows) has never had the same potential...
...relative handful of Haitians were attempting the sea trek, some members of Congress asked Bush to allow some of the refugees into the U.S. on a temporary basis. The legislators reasoned that such a quiet humanitarian gesture would ease the painful effects of the embargo without encouraging others to flee. The Administration shelved the suggestion, though it did launch a perfunctory effort to persuade Haiti's democratic neighbors to resettle some of the refugees. Belize agreed to take 100 boat people -- if they tested negative for the AIDS virus. Honduras, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago agreed to accept a total...
During the seven-month tenure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitians who were captured by the U.S. Coast Guard while trying to flee to south Florida were routinely returned to Haiti...
...administration backed off that policy after Aristide's September 30 ouster at the hands of a military coup. The administration abides by the standard international refugee policy of returning those who flee for economic reasons but not returning those trying to escape political repression...