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...graffiti war in Honduras is at once a parody and a paradigm of the larger phantom war that is haunting the country within its borders and without. Ever since 1982, when the U.S.-backed contra rebels set up bases in Honduras for their efforts to bring down the Nicaraguan government, the country has found itself in a curious kind of limbo: not at war, but hardly at peace, caught in the line of a fire that it is unwilling and largely powerless to join. Now, with Washington about to send $100 million in aid to the contras, the reluctant hosts...
...three-year-old Filly is merely an upstart compared to the pink Hong Kong Restaurant (1236 Mass. Ave.) which packs them in for miles. Drink the Scorpion Bowl, a tropical concoction of supposed fruit juices and phantom alcohol. It will take a couple of these to get buzzed but by that time you'll be broke...
This is the conclusion reached a couple years ago by a junior faculty member who coined "the phantom student": the undergraduate who through lack of self-confidence or interest fails to pursue opportunities for student-faculty contact...
...home alone, Dwight devised a variety of phantom baseball games, sometimes flipping ordinary playing cards. Nobody else was ever able to make much sense of it, but he could always see a diamond. "I was a daydreamer," he confesses. "When I'd step into the Little League batter's box, I'd think, 'I'm Pete Rose, I'm Al Kaline.' " For hitting two home runs in a forgotten spring-training game 15 years ago at Lakeland, Detroit's Hall of Fame rightfielder is Gooden's ideal still. "I just fell in love with him for the way he played...
...does allow as how he is not fretting much about the possibility of losing the personal privacy he so values. Nobody knows the back alleys of Carmel better; he has been using them for quicksilver exits for the past 14 years. "I'm not known as the Phantom of Carmel for nothing." But will he be a phantom mayor? "I will not miss any council meetings," he pledges. "This will be my first priority." As for the charge that he has political aspirations beyond the city limits, Eastwood explains that Carmel is a big enough arena for him. "Carmel...