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Reporting from a paranoia-mad communist country has never been easy, and these days Cuba is a more difficult assignment than ever. Most journalists do the prescribed, unenlightening rounds of officialdom in Havana, sneak off to see a few dissidents, then interview cab drivers or disgruntled locals in food lines. Honesty is like bread -- a commodity on rations. Oppenheimer, a Pulitzer-prizewinning correspondent for the Miami Herald, found a way around this difficulty: he carried letters from Cubans in Miami to relatives on the island, thus gaining their trust. As a result, he captures a truer, if sadder, portrait...
...prescriptions have caused Jackson and Cuomo to grumble, but they saved their full-throated ire for Clinton's rebuke of Sister Souljah. Common decency dictates that those seeking high office be willing to condemn the rap singer's racist ravings, but Jackson perceived a "character flaw" in Clinton's "sneak attack" on Souljah at an "emergency" meeting of Jackson's "rainbow coalition." Speaking of himself in the third person (an affectation common to megalomaniacs), Jackson denounced Clinton's courage as a "Machiavellian maneuver" designed "purely to appeal to conservative whites by containing Jackson and isolating Jackson." So Jackson is flirting...
...neither she nor her husband has any interest in killing neighbors with whom they have lived harmoniously for years. Before Josipovic left, she was on comfortable enough terms with the Croatians next door to ask them to mind her goats. She says conscripts on both sides of the conflict sneak home at night to guard their own property, often standing shoulder to shoulder; when the sun rises, they report for duty in opposing camps...
This Paul McCartney hardly seems like the man who would sneak marijuana into Japan, who sent unsigned letters to those who offended him or who begrudged money for his father, as some disgruntled former associates and relatives claim. He also seems a long way from the rocker who scandalized the world by admitting he had experimented with LSD, although there's no denying his repeated run-ins with the law over marijuana. Whether McCartney has given up that habit is debatable. He admits to only one vice: drinking Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch and Classic Coke. "Four...
This reporter, mistaken for a member of theHarvard Lampoon, was initially refused entranceinto the area. Actual Lampoon members did not makea stir, although one student did sneak into theaudience wearing a green monster mask...