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This sea chant, repated at the story's climax, typifies Norman's highly personal approach to fiction. His story is extravagant melodrama, but his writing is strict, laconic and evocative. Birds, coves, proper names. Odd sources of enchantment, but real ones...
...schools and train workers for better jobs will help, but only a trickle of funds is flowing in. Last week P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asked U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher to open the spigot full blast. The Secretary voiced sympathy but reiterated the demands of donors for strict accounting controls. Arafat fumes at such "economic occupation," but donors, recalling the P.L.O.'s freewheeling spending habits, have reason to fear creation of a giant slush fund...
...standards, but potent passion nevertheless) that stemmed from his religious frustration as a staunch Roman Catholic in Anglican England. Similarly, though Bach was "only" a Lutheran, his music resonates with passion that many of his interpreters and biographers sought to downplay or even negate, thinking it incongruous with the strict Baroque compositional forms...
However, the one thing that has changed, over and over again, is the American policy towards these refugees. The Bush administration held to a strict deportation policy without the benefit of asylum hearings; candidate Clinton attacked this dictum as both "immoral" and "illegal" throughout the campaign. In January 1993, President Clinton proclaimed that he would temporarily continue the Bush policy until an "acceptable" alternative is found. In June of the same year, Clinton announced economic sanctions would be imposed on the Haitian regime...
...filled with lively diversions instead of deadly teenage violence. Community leaders and parents have launched a record number of programs to steer youths away from gunfire and toward productive activity: work, play and education. And to put teeth into the campaign, dozens of towns have imposed strict curfews...