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...cold morning last April, in the shadow of Montana's Beartooth Mountain range, five agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) walked into the office of Dr. Richard Nelson, a Billings neurologist. For six hours, they combed through his records, seizing 72 patient charts and confiscating his drug-dispensing permit. The charge? None so far, but the assumption is that he is suspected of improperly prescribing narcotic drugs. Despite a distinguished professional record spanning more than four decades, Nelson has had to spend $20,000 on lawyers, fearing that the government will indict him if it turns out that...
...Jakovskaya, a theater director, organized his mechanical marvels into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music, and handing out opera glasses. In the early '90s, artists from Scotland helped Bersudsky, who now speaks again but would rather not, to show Sharmanka abroad and eventually to settle in Glasgow...
...handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody ax. Jakovskaya, a theater director, organized his mechanical marvels into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music, and handing out opera glasses. In the early '90s, artists from Scotland helped Bersudsky, who now speaks again but would rather not, to show Sharmanka abroad and eventually to settle in Glasgow. Bad memories inform the sculptures he's made ever since - like Titanic (1994), a flapping ship...
...overarching goal for Farkes, but getting inked by his favorite team has made the experience doubly sweet. Farkes is from Boston, and his family has held season tickets to the Red Sox ever since he was six years old. Now, the kid who grew up in the shadow of Fenway Park and stayed in town to play his college ball will get the chance to work up the minor league ladder with the team that is in his blood...
...physically or mentally handicapped Costa Ricans. They are pariahs, like the poor Nicaraguan refugees who fill up the slums and ghettos outside the city limits. Only the “Nicas” have this one advantage: they are feared, and their poverty, their presence, is a constant, weighty shadow that creeps along the edges of cosmopolitan San Jose. They will not be forgotten as long as even taxi drivers, that typically fearless breed of city dweller, refuse to set foot in their ramshackle villages in broad daylight. Their festering humanity, heartrending...