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Cornell finally generated some meaningful offense in the third period, but that only brought Tracy's latent sharpness into focus. And the Crimson skated into the sunset as "D-serving" winners of a well-played 4-2 hockey game...
While U.S. troops appeared delighted at the level of good behavior, supporters of the Haitian military remained terrified by the latent potential for popular uprising. They are haunted by a vision of wild rampages in which mobs seek retribution by destroying the homes of their oppressors. Those fears were only exacerbated by the Americans' success at squelching the Haitian military, which has tended to embolden pro-Aristide forces. In several cases, the sheer presence of American troops has inspired crowds to attack stragglers from the Haitian military. To discourage this, the U.S. has actually cut the size of its patrols...
...rolling hills of southwestern Ohio's Montgomery County. TIME first profiled the region two months before the 1992 election, when both the Bush and Clinton campaigns were battling for this key swing county in a critical state. Angst over the economy won out over the county's latent conservatism, and Clinton beat Bush 41% to 40%, with Ross Perot taking 18%. Two months into the Clinton presidency, when campaign pledges were evolving into a flurry of presidential proposals and Executive Orders, TIME returned to the region to find voters eager for change yet squirming like patients in a dentist...
...this campus the same thing. Isn't it great to be Jewish? I try to find subtle ways to ask the question, but my approaches don't really disguise it that well. I'm sure in this world of political correctness everyone thinks I am engaging in some latent form of anti-Semitism. I'm not. Really. And I'd like to take this opportunity to explain myself...
Instead, Benitez links the characters together by setting their stories against the background tale of the improbable Remedios, who performs short rituals every so often, each time summoning one of the four elements of tierra, fuego, agua, aire to her, to remind us of her latent existence. Remedios provides a superficial and irritating Great Earth Mother feel to A Place Where the Sea Remembers, the blurb on the book's jacket waxes fulsome over the "secret dreams and desires known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios' a healer who hears them all." Remedios' chants sound like...