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...farm a decade ago, the landowner could have done what other besieged farmers have | done. He might easily have picked up an ax and begun cutting down more tropical rain forest around his land on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He could have sold the timber from the tall laurel trees that shade the cacao bushes, then burned the dense virgin forest on the hill behind his farm. Then Bryant, like so many financially strapped small farmers in Latin America, could have sown pasture and sold the land to a cattle rancher. Within three or four years, one more small...
UNFORTUNATELY, this approach only hurts the play. Woody Allen doesn't write broad physical comedies, and he can't be performed like the Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy, though this seems to be the Dunster House approach. Physical humor, which might play well in the background, is brought to center stage, detracting from the play itself. The audience is treated to such extended vignettes as Axel struggling with Scotch tape and the embassy priest struggling to free himself from a Houdiniesque magic trick. These antics are funny by themselves, but are not anywhere near enough to carry an entire...
...other current projects include the rehabilitation of a six-unit cooperative housing building at ten Laurel St. and a mixed-income housing limited equity condominium at 125 Portland St., said Koven...
...land remains flat on both sides of the river beyond Matamoros. The first small hills rise in Starr County, west of McAllen, Texas. The moon darts in and out of clouds driven by a strong wind as Border Patrol officers Leo Laurel and Juan Trevino sit in the blacked-out cab of their Chevrolet Suburban. "They choose their sheriffs and deputies by the pound around here," jokes Trevino when asked why the police do not make more drug busts in one of the most important marijuana and cocaine importation routes in the country. "If an officer doesn't grab...
...south Texas (and about twice that in New York). Judging by the haul recovered from the brush, eight or nine other "mules" made it back to the river. It is the third such bust in as many days. As an ambulance takes the wounded man away, Laurel shakes his head. "I don't like it when the shooting starts," he says. "In the old days we just got poor campesinos from the interior with huaraches ((leather sandals)) on their feet. Now we are up against tough river rats. If I came across someone wearing huaraches these days, I think...