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...powerful currents of American life flowed by. Between 1892 and 1924, 12 million immigrants first touched U.S. soil there. Forty percent of all Americans can look back to an ancestor who passed through its doors. Abandoned more than three decades ago, Ellis Island reopens its doors this week as pure, potent symbol. After a ; seven-year, $156 million restoration, the most expensive single refurbishment in the nation's history, the main building has been transformed into a monument to the majesty and pain of the immigrant experience...
...dining room table in Kennebunkport, Me., looking beyond the rocky shore to the open water, and sometimes he is on his boat, casting for bluefish, when he wonders aloud about the new world order he must shape once the Iraqi confrontation plays out. He is looking beyond pure military matters...
...grip of a three-year drought, Israel too is far from secure, despite its formidable conservation technologies. An expected 750,000 Soviet emigres will probably settle in the cities, where the use of pure water is the highest. At the same time, 750,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip face what Zemah Ishai, Israel's water commissioner, calls a "catastrophe" because of overpumping and contamination of groundwater...
...obvious that the Iraqi assault was, as President Bush termed it, "naked aggression." Resource-rich but sparse in people, Kuwait was a timely acquisition -- an act of piracy, pure and simple -- for Iraq, whose war with Iran left the country with $70 billion in debts and tremendous reconstruction costs. While Saddam does not face an immediate cash shortage, he is intent on proceeding with some $40 billion worth of self-memorializing development projects that he has been unable to finance. Among them: the Baghdad metro, 2,000 miles of railway and two gigantic hydroelectric dams. Now Saddam can not only...
...only objectionable experience on my visit to the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Boston ICA was the piece of red paper stuck on the windshield of my mode of transport that I found upon returning from a three-hour feast of pure visual exhilaration. It seems that in situations like the Mapplethorpe fiasco, everybody has to pay some price...