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...debacle on Oct. 26, when voters rejected yet another complicated package of reforms, the result appears to be something akin to anticlimax. Rather than aggravating French-English tensions, the outcome seems to have left 27 million Canadians relieved that, at least for now, the perennial constitutional issue has been swept off the table. The compromise proposal, supported strongly by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, lost by a nationwide vote of 54% to 45%; it was rejected in six of the 10 provinces, including Quebec. That, noted Brian Falesky, a lawyer in Calgary, Alberta, "was the first time Canadians became passionate about...
...themselves hemmed in by Somalis eager to touch American flesh, gesture their relief, smile their thanks. People skills seemed more important than military ones as the need to establish a friendly rapport battled with the demand to maintain order. In those first hours, it was hard not to be swept up in the euphoria. Declared Fatima Mohammed, 32, a mother of seven: "I'd like the U.S. troops to stay here for life...
...Though it was no Hurricane Andrew, at least a dozen people were killed and many thousands evacuated -- some from flooded rail stations and Wall Street lobbies. Hundreds of thousands lost power. Among the pervasive damage: windows sucked out of New York City skyscrapers and a century-old fishing pier swept away in Ocean Grove, New Jersey...
...becomes less pessimistic as Schnackenberg begins to blur the lines between past and present: "There is a flood remnant...As if the Samaritan woman's water jar/Had been hurled against the wall, and was still dripping...Or it may be only a freshly washed floor/ Whose little lakes are...swept around by the custodian's mop...They say the ice-cold well of martyrdom brims into the present here...
Will the crackdown reassure him and others? Even as Bonn was girding for action, a spate of new attacks swept the country. Police moved quickly and arrested suspects, many of whom were then charged with attempted murder. That alone represents an improvement; until recently many suspects in violent attacks were charged with nothing more serious than disturbing the peace. The chairman of the German Union of Judges, Rainer Voss, admitted last week that the public saw the judges as "inappropriately lenient" and urged his colleagues "to confront decisively the enemies of humanity and democracy." The Molln case may have provided...