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...dispute that reality. Still, if Castro controls Juan Miguel, many are worried that the Foundation is manipulating Lazaro Gonzalez, 49, the semi-employed great-uncle who has custody of Elian in Miami. Close relatives in Miami say his many publicity stunts with the boy are out of character. And while relatives say they admire the mothering that Lazaro's daughter Marisleysis, 21, has given Elian, they complain, in the words of one of them, that "she doesn't make him a glass of chocolate milk without telling him that his grandmothers can't buy that for him in Cuba...
...finds it particularly objectionable when professional football players huddle on the field for a semi-private pregame prayer. But when a similar prayer is broadcast from the bleachers of a public high school football game, fallout becomes more likely - even in football-mad, religiously conservative Texas. Witness the events of 1995 in Santa Fe, Texas: The families of two students at the local high school filed suit against the district, claiming the pregame prayers blaring out of the school's public address system violated the First Amendment by "creating a pervasive religious atmosphere." Those families are not feeling especially popular...
...rampage soon if she doesn't snag a summer job--from Let's Go preferably. Another threatened to kill his bubbly co-worker with his leatherman knife. Ooops. Blame it on nicotine withdrawal. Yet another was nearly arrested in the wee hours of Sunday morning after sharing his semi-digested pasta and savory chyme with an imposing 220 pound, goatee-sporting soul at a Bickford's in Braintree. And with the sidewalk...
...outlet for under-partied undergraduates. "Nobody else here has parties, so I might as well do it myself," quips Das, whose parents conveniently graced him with a Charles Square apartment before his junior year. With five official parties tallied since September, the pad has proved its worth. Das' latest semi-formal fete was a sequel to September's successful wine-and-cheese theme...
...there are odds to consider in the other direction. This thing is supposed to work on maybe two of some 30 known strains of anthrax, and even then only semi-reliably on so-called "aerosolized" anthrax, meaning the kind you inhale if Saddam or Kim Jong-Il does his thing. And don't think the bad guys don't have some idea of which strains we're protected against and which would tear our lungs out from the inside. The way I figure it, the odds of a weekend warrior like me getting gassed during my stay...