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...embodies childish playfulness, zest for life and prankish humor. During the course of almost three hours, he appears in countless guises across a tourist's landscape of India, as a Japanese husband and later his wife, as a street peddler, a beggar and a leper, not to mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers and self-aware enough to be deeply discontented with their outwardly settled world. They are looking for magic and miracles -- the magic of feeling kinship with all humanity...
Allison did not mention this conversation in a subsequent report to Aspin, the investigative report said. He later told investigators that Aspin had expressed eagerness to fund the project. Aspin said he "did not recall discussing whether Dr. Allison should convey to the Russian officials [his] support for the seminar...however, [he] indicated that if Dr. Allison had sought [his] approval, [Aspin] probably would have granted it," the report said...
While these statements did not pertain directly to the question of prosecutorial misconduct by Ryan and others, Wiseman went out of his way to mention them in his report...
Elsewhere in the nation anti-immigrant sentiment is widespread but less intense. Asked specifically by pollsters if they favor curbing immigration, most people say they do, but when presented with a general question as to what they consider the nation's most serious problems, only about 2% mention reducing immigration. Many people too have very mixed feelings. Even in California the most vehement opponents of illegal immigration profess the highest regard for those who come to the U.S. legitimately and even view them as potential allies. "If you came here and obeyed the laws, then you should...
...city and turning unprotected tricks. Naively, the Poles -- laid off from regular jobs and trying to support families -- hope to cash in quickly and return home in a few months. Raised as Catholics, "their AIDS awareness is nil," says social worker Wiltrud Schenk. "They get embarrassed if you mention the word condom." In Bombay farmers migrate to town off-season for construction jobs. They visit the brothels -- where a third of the prostitutes are HIV-positive -- and later infect their wives. The virus is sweeping the subcontinent: from half a dozen HIV-positive cases in 1986 to a million today...