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...when your roads lead way off the beaten track. Morris is not one for a luxury cruise. Instead she opts for danger and discomfort. Nothing to Declare is a memoir of her travels in Central America, which she explores in the tradition of truth through squalor, using a Mexican slum as a base camp. Despite occasional lapses into over- studied eloquence, she is a fascinating guide, with an eye for the brutal, the garish, the silly and bizarre. At a Mayan market in the Yucatan, Morris is tempted by giant beetles being sold as pets. "They were dressed as cowboys...
Bruce S. Miller '90, one of four Harvard students who went on the service project last year, agrees. He says he found his stay in the Mexico City slum very disagreeable but in retrospect, he felt the project was a worthwhile experience...
Allegations surfaced last week that the Namphy government was far more interested in disciplining the vigilante groups than in curbing the thugs. A distraught 19-year-old Haitian woman told the San Francisco Examiner that one day before the election soldiers swept Carrefour-Feuilles, a hillside slum south of the capital, rounding up alleged vigilantes. At the Fort Dimanche military prison, she charged, men in uniform shot and bayoneted to death 46 of her cellmates. The woman claimed that only she and two other women were spared. Namphy's government denied the report, but human-rights groups are urging Amnesty...
...walk in the park is the best cure for the blues," said seminar member Mark Primack, quoting a 19th-century preacher. "While parks are amenities in and of themselves, they are also a place for recreation and relaxation for the slum-dwellers," he added...
David E.'s campaign flyers declare that "they'll do anything to get David E. Sullivan off the City Council," and blame David J's candidacy on "the big-time developers, the slum landlords, the patronage politicians, the fast-buck condo converters...