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...biggest story might turn out to be neither a horse nor a rider but a tick-transmitted equine blood disease called piroplasmosis. Despite objections from Georgia officials, more than a dozen foreign horses that have tested positive for the disease will enter the U.S. for the Games. Americans to watch: husband and wife David and Karen O'Connor in the three-day event, Michael Matz in jumping and Michelle Gibson in dressage...
...hype of the whole enterprise, in retrospect, seems reckless. Let us tick off the deceptions that everyone involved pretended were true: the trip was Jessica's idea; she was doing it for the joy of flying; she was truly piloting the plane; it was safe; she wasn't scared. For the most part, the public played along with this game, for it is easier not to question the received platitudes. Yet, looking at her taped interviews after the fact, it is clear that the dutiful little girl who didn't want to disappoint her father, who insisted...
Back in September 1994, when Bill Clinton itemized his intentions for Haiti, he kept them basic, so now he can tick off the accomplishments. The main goal of Operation Uphold Democracy was to restore the legitimate Haitian President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power and in so doing halt the flood of boat people. With 20,000 U.S. troops and a little help from Jimmy Carter, Clinton did it. Objective No. 2 was achieved last week when Rene Preval took the presidential oath and Haiti experienced its first-ever peaceful transfer of power from one popularly elected leader to another...
...with all its faults, The Twilight of the Golds deserves a meaningful look. It'll tick you off for a number of reasons, make you laugh (listen for the planting trees in Golan Heights joke) and maybe shed some tears When it originally opened in New York two years ago, one woman found the play so moving that she look out an ad in the Times in an effort to raise money to keep the production afloat for as long as possible. If nothing else, The Twilight of the Golds is a gripping story, important and timeless, it seems, with...
...care about game laws, turkeys are dead easy. Just throw some corn on the ground. They will come. You will shoot them. That is what happened a century and a half ago, and turkeys were so unwily that by the end of the 19th century they were within a tick of extinction, with only about 30,000 birds hiding out in swamps and hollows across the continent. The 7,000 birds that now roam New Hampshire are the descendants of 25 individuals trapped in New York's mountains in 1975 and resettled. A similar program, begun...