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...plight facing Tom and June Fisher, a Cincinnati, Ohio, couple with three children. Though both Tom and June worked in an auto-parts factory, they still could not afford their rented trailer and had to move out. A state agency has placed the family temporarily in a motel room and pays part of the $45-a-night tab. June now cleans rooms in the motel, and Tom works in a sports bar. But it's a struggle. The family shares two double beds, a cot and one chair; toys and school books are stored underneath the beds; luxuries, even small...
...quickly in the tropics and after sundown, there's only one place to be: in one of the park's comfortably appointed accommodations. During the wet season, rates drop considerably. The Kakadu Resort complex, set on a 10-hectare bushland site near the South Alligator River, offers air-conditioned motel rooms (doubles cost $70 a night), powered and unpowered van sites, and a camping area ($3.80 per person); call (61-8) 8979-0166 to book. For those with slightly fatter wallets, there's the Gagudju Crocodile Holiday Inn in the town of Jabiru, tel: (61-8) 8979-2800. Architectural whimsy...
...worst-case scenario How might this order affect legal aliens living in the U.S.? Professor Pyle offers a grim example. Let's say there's a Pakistani man who's living here legally, he says. He owns a chain of motels, and one day, all of a sudden, he's arrested. When he asks why, officials tell him it's because he "harbored" a suspected terrorist, a man who once stayed in the motel for a while and took the owner out for a beer. Instead of being held at the local police station, the Pakistani man is taken...
...days of J. Edgar Hoover, but today there is more riding on the issue. Local police and sheriffs say they are eager to be the eyes and ears and legs for the bureau's overburdened agents. Michael J. Chitwood is chief of police in Portland, Me., near the motel where two of the hijackers, suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, spent the night before the attacks. Chitwood complains that the FBI has shared nothing with him. "They've got two or three agents here," he says. "I've got 160 cops. These terrorists live, eat, drive in our communities...
...West, The Last Seduction and Unforgettable. Therefore, his direction does not disappoint. Dahl establishes an ominous atmosphere using a variety of unique color and light. Note that a painting of a stormy sea fills a room with its sickish green hue and the glow of fluorescent bulbs outside a motel illuminate a suspenseful scene in red. Furthermore, Dahl savors situations in which his audience knows more about a tense situation than his heroes and heroine do. Viewers are aware of the villainous trucker’s traps. Suspense is built as they wait and watch, wondering whether...