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...plastic milk crates at the agents. "It was a horror show," he says. As the motorcade drove off, agent Jim Goldman called INS headquarters to report that Elian was scared and shaken, but safe. Goldman said he was stroking Elian's back, while Mills told him of his coming reunion with Papa. "This is one tough little kid," Goldman marveled. "I was shaking...
...Juan Miguel and his allies in Washington, the pain of Saturday morning was an awful means to a joyous end. The reunion of father and son would, as Juan Miguel's lawyer Greg Craig said, "revive" Elian. For those who had come to view the Miami Cubans as well-meaning kidnappers, the raid by INS agents was nothing more or less than a rescue mission--unavoidable, long overdue and mercifully quick. The images were wrenching, but the outcome was a relief...
...group of six girls [rooming together] and we just stuck together," Meredith L. "Max" Hodges '03 says. "We e-mailed all summer and now we have pre-frosh reunion brunches every once in a while...
...some ways, the IMF protest was a reunion. It wasn't a replay, though. In Seattle, organized labor ran interference for the ragtag groups assembled behind it, marshaling several thousand union members who feared that free trade might send their jobs abroad. In Washington, labor focused on lobbying Congress over the China-trade issue, leaving the IMF and the World Bank to the ad hoc Netocracy. Munson, the anarchist, thinks it's just as well. "The union heads are into a protectionist, nationalist agenda," he says. "They want to prevent China from entering the WTO. Our position is that...
...Although Juan Miguel Gonzalez is bound by this week's court decision to remain with his son in the U.S. pending the outcome of the relatives' appeal, his reunion with Elian will change the political facts of this case. It now becomes a campaign to remove a six-year-old from the care of his father and transfer him back to some relatives in Miami, and that's unlikely to elicit much sympathy from either the public or the courts. To be sure, the Miami relatives and their supporters may struggle to maintain the momentum of their campaign to keep...