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...Bold Magic Hamlet...
...Bald Magic Hamlet...
...direction of old westering tracks 30,000 ft. below. Inside the plane, the clerisy of "spin," that is, the priesthood of partisans sent around to see reporters after major campaign events and impart the right spin, have done their work up and down the aisles, like Polonius and Hamlet discussing the ! shapes of clouds. The candidate is dozing up front. The jackals of the press have settled into their routines of mild carousal...
Ominous sounds woke Chandralatha, 28, last week in the remote jungle hamlet of Mahakongaskanda. Sensing danger, "I told my husband to hide under the bed," she later recounted from a hospital bed where she was recovering from bullet wounds. "He kept his body against the door and tried to hold it closed. They shot through the door, killing him." Chandralatha's one-year-old baby was also killed, and two of her other children were wounded. Altogether, 44 residents of Mahakongaskanda, including 18 children, were shot or hacked to death with machetes in the bloody attack on the Sinhalese village...
This September afternoon Sister is working the back roads of Socorro, a 17th century Spanish mission hamlet, mustering turnout for a meeting with an important politician. In the doorway of a cinder-block home, she embraces a key worker, Anastacia Ledesma, but wastes no time on niceties. "Cuantas personas? Ciento, maybe?" the nun asks in her novice Spanish, inquiring how ) many supporters the area can deliver to the meeting. "Doscientos," comes the reply. "Ah, muy, muy bien," exclaims Ceasar. "Four buses. This time we'll fill four buses...