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...smart girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Caitlin is wealthy, stunningly beautiful, wild, and, of course, troubled. They meet in the late 1970s at age 12, and Caitlin invites Vix into her spacious house and luxurious life in Martha’s Vineyard, worlds away from the squalid trailer in New Mexico that Vix calls home...
Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip served the interests of peace, although that was perhaps not why Sharon carried it out. His emissaries suggested that he quit Gaza?a sandy, squalid quarter to which few Israelis feel any attachment?to win goodwill in the world in order to strengthen Israel's claim to its more valued settlements in the West Bank. Media reports recently suggested Sharon was prepared to unilaterally draw a border in the West Bank between Israel and what might become a Palestinian state, emptying Jewish settlements that fell on the wrong side. It's an interesting...
...started sending Haitians home without stopping at Guantánamo. In a defeat for the Yale team, the Supreme Court eventually upheld the Bush policy. Koh also had to juggle a separate case before Johnson that urged the release of the remaining HIV-positive refugees, including Pascal, from the squalid conditions on the naval base...
...target of resource nationalism. But Venezuela possesses about 2.5% of the world's 1 billion oz. of unmined gold reserves, and experts say about half its gold is mined by some 30,000 illegal miners. So as bullion approaches $500 per oz.--and as miners call attention to their squalid lives--gold has become a hot political as well as economic commodity...
...script, written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, and adapted from a Scott Phillips novel. It’s a nasty, biting little bugger, a film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys...