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...gang there looks as if they might have drifted over after work from the Glengarry Glen Ross real estate office -- especially since Mike, their leader, is played by Joe Mantegna, who was the star salesman in Mamet's sharp, funny play about the hustling of dubious Florida property. This group, however, lives even further out on society's margin. They are peddling greedy dreams unbacked even by swampland. And obviously there is a thing or two they can teach Margaret about practical psychology...
...Route Nationale 1 on an August night in a dark and slashing rain, Aristide and three other priests, all of whom have spoken out against military abuses, were stopped first at an army checkpoint and then at an improvised roadblock less than 300 feet down the road. There, a gang of about 40, armed with rocks, sticks, machetes and guns, began stoning the car. Two of & the priests hid Aristide on the floor. Soldiers only a short distance away ignored the assault...
Meanwhile, in another car in the priests' convoy, a young religious student was mistaken for Aristide, badly beaten and saved from execution only when the gang's leader approached, took the boy's face in his hand and then pushed him away. "That's not Aristide," he told his men. "Aristide doesn't have a beard." The priests escaped when their driver spotted a small opening in the barricade and plowed through it into the night...
...after weeks of dusty browsing around this great country, I stopped for coffee at Toad's Place, out in western Iowa, and bet my old gang a nickel on Bush. It may be catching. The Washington Post's David Broder last week inhaled the fall vapors and wrote, "The recognition is growing in the political community that odds favor the Republicans' nominating the next President...
...that building with its high brick walls and Boston ferns, shrimp on ice and tall, cool drinks was like being told you had won the lottery at lunch and then at supper being called an April Fool. When told to reboard, we fools fell in line like a chain gang...