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...have a role in this secret commerce: three times a day a boy delivers slaughtered birds and boxes of white rice to the refugees, who may wait days or weeks for their boat to leave. For a few pesos extra, he will bring a bottle of Brugal, the local rum, to kill the boredom and dull any fears about the dangers that lie ahead. "The town depends on the trips," says an older resident. "When the weather is bad or the police ask for more money and the trips slow down, it becomes like a graveyard...
...also commissioned Taylor's "Company B," performed for the first time by Boston Ballet as part of the "Festival." The spirited songs of the Andrews Sisters and the witty exhuberance of the dancing makes this piece pure fun. Songs such such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "Pennsylvania Polka" and "Rum and Coca-Cola" highlight the array, evoking the feelings of a confident and patriotic era, with underpinnings of tragedy behind every beat. Although some of the steps are clear reminders of swing dancing, Taylor adds many new elements by experimenting with the pace of the moves. Some of the dancing...
...Conner, the world's most famous sailor, has been less than gracious. At a regatta dinner in Newport, Rhode Island, last August, he called the women's team "a bunch of lesbians," prompting team navigator Annie Nelson to douse him with her rum-and-coke. "He was way out of line," says Nelson. Trenkle, who was standing nearby, maintains that the comment was "locker-room humor. They were joking around." Many of the women were not amused. "Ninety percent of us are either married or have steady boyfriends, but who cares?" says mainsheet grinder Stephanie Armitage-Johnson...
Some students said it was a pretty sober holiday weekend. "The wildest alcohol-related activity of which I've partaken this weekend was a healthy does of rum-butterscotch topping on my ice cream at Herrell's," joked Daniel G. Appel...
...word has not yet got through to Port-au-Prince. Haiti's military junta called its supporters into the streets for what has become a familiar ritual of taunting the U.S. While onlookers sipped rum, 3,000 demonstrators screamed slogans into the microphones of foreign television crews and painted voodoo hexes on the crosswalk to hobble U.S. invaders when they arrive. As an expression of the diplomacy-of-defiance that constitutes Haiti's foreign policy, it provided a crude but telling glimpse of what Lieut. General Raoul Cedras thinks of Clinton's threats to topple him and his henchmen...