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...react. To begin with, say U.S. and Colombian officials, the rebels will probably try to diversify their sources of revenue: which means more kidnappings and crime. But U.S. planners also think the FARC will try to hit back. Eradication flights already come under gunfire from FARC units trying to protect crops from spraying. And the FARC might yet expand their counterattacks by trying to go after Americans directly, hoping that enough body bags will scare the U.S. out of the region. One question you will constantly hear debated in Bogota is whether or not the FARC has surface...
...crazy quilt" education, an arresting fictional presence. She can be blunt, circa the 1870s--"There is a lot of Indian in her nigger"--and sometimes poetic: "Mothers grow flaccid, rich in babylove, each baby taking some of the mother's beauty as if the baby knows it needs to protect its babyself by making Mama less kiss-daddy pretty." Why shouldn't the loyal slaves enshrined in the magnolia myth of GWTW, novel and film, be given their say? "Alice Randall has an absolute right to criticize Gone With the Wind," says Martin Garbus, the Mitchell estate lawyer...
...Arsenic and Bad Beef" [PUBLIC EYE, April 16], columnist Margaret Carlson asked, "Where's the compassion that was supposed to go with Bush's conservatism?" Good question. Bush and his rapacious followers are doing their best to reverse years of hard-fought progressive measures designed to protect people and preserve our environment. I have two questions of my own: Where's the outrage, and where the heck is Al Gore? AL DALE Atlanta...
...Garrett, a 27-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine service and now president of Kroll Associates, a global security firm: "You can jeopardize the company or the officer involved." The Internet executive, asked if he would consider placing a CIA officer, replied, "Absolutely not. I've got to protect my company...
...BREAST For years researchers have suspected that alcohol--even one glass a day--could increase a woman's chance of developing breast cancer. Now there may be a way to protect yourself, other than giving up wine with dinner. A study of 35,000 postmenopausal women shows that 400 mcg of the B vitamin folate seems to neutralize the cancer-causing effects of drinking. Where do you find folate? Dried beans, green leafy vegetables and most multivitamin pills...