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...this?" Briefly, here's how: in late 1999, a small boat sank while making its perilous way from Cuba to Florida. Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez's mother and 10 other refugees drowned. Elian was picked up by two fishermen as he floated in an inner tube off Florida's coast. The boy had relatives in Miami, and they took him in. Immediately, debate flared over whether Elian should stay in the U.S. or be returned to his father in Cuba. Fidel Castro's regime staged rallies demanding the latter course. In the U.S., as a crowd of Elian "supporters...
...Bush's own education dreams. Bush dusted off an old slogan for Paige on Friday, calling him a "reformer with results," and added that Paige has shown in Houston that "urban schools can be excellent schools." Oh, and he's black, which makes three in so far in the inner circle...
There's some good humor in the truths that he overhears, maybe even some sympathetic insights into the inner life of a sex he has exploited as God's hunky gift to womankind. Certainly it helps him ingratiate himself with Darcy Maguire (Hunt), the new creative director at his ad agency...
Martin's Greenspan is a better read. A former FORTUNE writer, Martin gives us a real biography, one that winds through Greenspan's geeky youth (band, glee club, math nerd) to his stint as a professional clarinet player and time spent in the inner circle of author Ayn Rand, and then to his advisory role with Presidents Nixon and Ford. Along the way we learn that Greenspan is yet another powerful political figure who was in the room but didn't inhale, and that as a child he was terrified of the movie Frankenstein. We also get plenty of quotable...
...election results, is now in the business of making them. The court warned that its ruling was custom fit: "Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances...equal protection...generally presents many complexities." You bet it does: like flawed machines that disproportionately failed to record legally cast votes in inner-city precincts. Or the purging of voter rolls by a firm hired by Bush's brother that disproportionately disenfranchised blacks...