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...common experience of Ellis Island fostered a fitting sort of quasi- kinship among U.S. citizens: nearly half of all Americans today can trace their lineage through the enormous main registry hall. Last week, as two visitors strolled the rich, elegiac ruin, a workman spontaneously announced his family connection with the place. "My grandmother came here when she was 17 years old," he shouted, "with nothing but a suitcase full of oranges. A suitcase full of oranges...
...birth of pointillist painting. Commodore Perry's opening of Japan to the West. A murderous barber and his woman companion who cooks the victims in pies. A bitter show-biz story of financial rise and moral fall--told chronologically backwards. The ruin of marriages. The disappointments of infidelity. The decline of the chorus-girl kick line as a metaphor for the loss of American innocence...
...longer. Harry, 66, and Erica, 53, are now divorced and locked in a legal slugfest in front of God and everybody: specifically, on the gritty stage of the State Circuit Court in Milwaukee. Erica and another De Rance director charge that Harry has pushed the foundation toward financial ruin by misspending close to $150 million in barely three years. They want the court to remove him as a director-trustee and take away his control of its funds. Harry insists their suit, now in its fifth week, is "a simple power grab...
...government handed the government back to civilians. Paz Estenssoro, 78, took office last August and imposed austerity measures on an economy paralyzed by a 24,000% inflation rate, widespread labor unrest and a foreign debt of $4.8 billion. Says Paz Estenssoro: "We are attempting to rescue the country from ruin." The job has been complicated by the worldwide collapse in the prices of tin and natural gas, two key sources of export earnings...
...adds, "I hope you're not going to publishthis and ruin...