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...sure, the world has become a dangerous place for reporters. "The idea of journalists' being neutral actors who could pass unmolested across the battle lines has long since faded," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, who has reported from the world's hot spots since the Vietnam War. "In some cases today journalists are deliberately executed by combatants as a way of telegraphing their cruelty and the fact that they'll stop at nothing. The prisoner swap may be Putin's way of sending a message that journalists who speak out will face official harassment...
...Saturday, though, neutral zone play dominated the game. The classic Harvard offense of fast breaks and crashing the net was mysteriously absent as the quick-skating Huskies prevented the Harvard offense from getting very many good opportunities to score...
...Elian's father travel to the U.S.--probably because he fears Juan Miguel would defect. But the Cuban dictator seems to have found potent ambassadors in the grandmas. They first went to Miami on Monday. The Cubans and the INS insisted on a meeting in a neutral location, but the Miami relatives would make Elian available only in their home, forcing the grandmothers to leave without seeing...
...Washington the next day, the abuelas tearfully lobbied against the citizenship bill. And they won a key victory: the INS ordered that Elian be made available at a neutral site. At the meeting, the Cubans shrewdly had the grandmothers carry in a cell phone so Elian's father could talk to him--and the Miami camp just as shrewdly got the phone taken away...
little battles on defense and in the neutral zone...