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Windsor, Ont., just across the Canadian border from Detroit, has always been a refuge for Americans whose proclivities run counter to the prevailing laws of the U.S. In the mid-1800s, runaway slaves made their way to freedom there via the Underground Railroad. During Prohibition, Al Capone's boys smuggled...
As baseball fades, it turns to memory to keep itself alive. The game's main refuge is its glorious receding past, to which it repairs with ever increasing frequency and desperation. Vintage cards, vintage players, vintage memories. What was the only memorable moment of last year's All-Star game...
They say history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce. But sometimes it manages both the first time around. Brit Bob Hoskins is a surprisingly apt choice for the Panamanian kleptocrat, whom he plays as a cruel yet pathetic schemer--a lower-class striver who in another life might have...
BP-Amoco is being targeted for its attempt to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Passage to Juneau gets in touch with nature most compellingly by discussing the stories of the Tlingits, the Salish and other tribes of the Pacific Northwest. Raban devotes many words to debunking the over-romanticized image of the harmony of American Indians with their surroundings. The sea is their refuge...