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...Aristide in 1991, when soldiers began arriving in trucks to round up suspected supporters of the exiled President. They hunted in particular for a group of 65 young men who were organizing a peasant co-op. Desperate not to lose the best of its youth, the community elected to pour its savings, its hopes and its most promising citizens into a single boat to America. Selling everything but their beds, the town cobbled together $1,650 and persuaded its wealthiest resident, who runs the local numbers game, to "buy" a 30-ft. sloop from police...
...dilemma confronting the U.N. was acute. Although Srebrenica had been declared a safe haven by the Security Council, the propensity of the Serbs to pour artillery fire onto civilians spoke in favor of a speedy evacuation. But with an important Muslim foothold at stake, there was also the risk of abetting, albeit unwittingly, the Serb goal of ethnic cleansing. The Bosnian authorities themselves were not pressing for a mass exodus, save for 500 badly wounded soldiers in need of hospital treatment. Said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Sylvana Foa: "They are very frightened, because they know...
...takes the work seriously, but not himself. During the Unforgiven shoot, he regaled the crew with his wicked John Wayne impersonation. When Gene Hackman kicked the hell out of him in their first saloon encounter, the script called for Hackman to stride over to the bar and pour a drink. From his position on the floor, where he was miming grievous hurt, Eastwood didn't call cut. Instead he groaned, "Pour one of those...
Clinton, further, is sticking to his promise to pour an additional $220 billion into the economy over four years in spending for job training, education and infrastructure projects (roads, bridges, high-speed railroads, fiber-optic communications), which only makes it harder to attain his goal of cutting the fiscal 1997 deficit $145 billion below current projections (that would represent a 38%, rather than a 50%, cut). But if he is to retain any credibility, he must produce a concrete program for doing it, and soon...
Time is not on the side of innocent civilians caught in a bloody war zone. Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky said it best recently in The New York Times: "As you pour yourself a scotch, crush a roach, or check your watch, as your hand adjusts your tie, people die. In the towns with funny names, hit by bullets, caught in flames, by and large not knowing why, people...