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...switch, so far at least, improved the situation in Haiti. Refugees were continuing to flee at the rate of 2,000 a day. Ad-hoc refugee camps at Guantanamo naval base and elsewhere were jammed to capacity, and Coast Guard cutters were nearly overwhelmed. In the Haitian countryside, many villages are being depopulated by the exodus; once bustling main streets are now virtually deserted, and more homes seem to be boarded up than inhabited...
Others say that the Cup isn't exciting enough for American audiences. Maybe so and maybe not. Pick up that remote control and switch away from a Cup game and what do you find? Golf, bowling, and gymnastics. This is a country that tunes in to watch T.V. stars take a whack at an obstacles course. We're clearly not against boredom in our sports...
...prosecutor's entire case into jeopardy. Like sportscasters, the commentators keep score, but points are awarded evenly to each side, because no one wants a runaway game where the fans leave the stands before half time. About the time a viewer might be tempted to switch to a shopping channel, the anchors would go to a replay of the ceremonious delivery of the mysterious brown envelope, which contains either a knife or a red herring. It's as riveting as the MacGuffin in a Hitchcock thriller...
...Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin approved on the White House lawn last September. When he stepped onto Palestinian land for the first time in 27 years last Friday, Arafat was wearing his usual green military- style uniform, holstered pistol and checkered kaffiyeh. But he acknowledged that he must now switch roles from guerrilla leader to head of government. "We need national unity," he told a crowd of 70,000, who repeatedly drowned out his words with cheers. "Big, big, big, big missions await us -- to build this homeland and rebuild what the occupation has destroyed...
Matthews was joined in the summer of 1993 by Greenough, Hollis Hurlbut, Pennypacker, Stoughton and Thayer Halls, all of which underwent varying degrees of renovations. Then, in January 1994, the Great Dorm Switch was repeated, with residents of Pennypacker and Holworthy moving into a completely redone Thayer...