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...couple of years ago, he began to toy with a goofy idea: that he could make the U.S. Olympic team next year and win a medal in his best event, the 100-m butterfly. It is the one men's event in which times haven't dropped dramatically. Pablo Morales, now retired, holds the record of 52.84 sec., and Spitz's '72 time of 54.27 sec. would have put him seventh at the Seoul Olympics. To make the team next year, Spitz figures, he'll have to swim in the low 53s. He seems keyed up, and, he says...
...Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the most fertile artist of the 20th century, and immense quantities of ink have been spilt over his work. He was, you might say without too much exaggeration, both the last hero of Romantic culture and the first of the age of publicity: a prodigy of talent on permanent display in an age of mass media. No other artist, not even Michelangelo, had been famous in quite this way before...
Colombia. An eerie truce has enveloped the Great Colombian Drug War. To fend off the government's relentless assault on his empire, Medellin cartel boss Pablo Escobar Gaviria seems to have forsaken bombs and gun battles in the streets, which have killed more than 1,000 people in the past 15 months, and opted instead for high-profile kidnappings and negotiations. Since August, Escobar's mob has been holding seven journalists -- including Hoy X Hoy magazine editor Diana Turbay, the daughter of a former President -- and threatening to kill them unless a peace deal can be worked...
...group of about 16 Jamaica Plain residents met last night behind closed doors with Mayor Raymond Flynn and Police Commissioner Francis Roache to air concerns about police conduct in the incident. A spokesperson for the residents, Pablo Calderon, said Roache and the residents will meet again tonight...
...speech entitled "Human Rights in a Paper-Thin Democracy: The View from Medellin, Colombia," Dr. Pablo Emilio Angarita, director of the Instito Popular de Capacitacion, told a crowd of approximately 50 people how he has struggled to protect citizens while being harassed by the Colombian government...