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...both the brilliant turquoise of the interior lagoon and, on the other side, waves breaking on the shallow reef that faces the Indian Ocean. There are dozens of islands like Naalaafushi in the Maldives--too many, say government officials, to provide with essential services, let alone shore up against the sea. In time, they hope, the residents of these islands (some of which have populations of not much more than 100 people) will be enticed to move to larger, more secure places like Hulhumalé, an artificial island being built from scratch just across the lagoon from the capital. Hulhumal?...
...intent on punishing one another, exacting penance." This flagellation is most evident in a trio of new British films. The wave of ironic celebrations of the imperial past (Chariots of Fire, A Passage to India, The Jewel in the Crown on TV) has ebbed, and on the shore we find the carcass of a small, irrelevant nation, reflected in the films of its sharpest young minds...
...Delay's efforts to mobilize conservative groups to rebut Democratic attacks on him: "I think they are trying to shore up the base. It suggests they have some concerns. I don't think it suggests there's been any major shift. But they are concerned it may be starting to penetrate beyond the Beltway or they wouldn't be doing this...
...Essay, Henry Grunwald refers to Emma Lazarus' words "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" on the Statue of Liberty as "awful" poetry. I think they are magnificent and moving. I bet millions of immigrants agree with me. Robert W. Driver Indian Rocks Beach...
Citing a particularly egregious example of theft, Jackson said that Kitty Hawk sailors managed to requisition 31 bars of pure silver, each weighing 9 Ibs. and worth about $535. The sailors were able to secure the bars from a shore supply depot and hide them. No record of the orders was kept on board, so the pilfering would not have been discovered if one of the sailors had not been caught trying to sell several bars...