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...quiet land. Deep, delicately carved canyons twist through golden walls of sandstone. A tortoise hides in the shade of a Joshua tree. Listen closely and you can hear the sound of a stream trickling through the rocks, over polished pebbles, and into a pool of crystal water...
...strange twist to the story, Juan Pablo Roque, a Cuban military pilot who had defected to the U.S. in 1992 and flown dozens of missions with the Brothers, suddenly returned to Havana. He appeared on Cuban television to denounce his former colleagues as provocateurs and potential terrorists. Roque, it turned out, had acted as an informant for both the FBI and Cuba. His wife Ana in Miami had had no idea of his double life. In an interview with TIME, she said that a few days before he left, he told her he had taken his clothes to the cleaner...
...tobacco champions twist their minds around possible defenses to the suits, they appear to be falling all over themselves in a vaudeville of contradictions. On the one hand, they argue, disease cannot be definitively linked to smoking; on the other, they have suddenly begun to point out that of course cigarettes are bad for us. "How can anybody, in good faith, take the position that the risks of the use of this product are not well known to everyone?" demands Donahue. "When you come to the bottom line, what does the consuming public know? They know everything." As Philip Morris...
Buchanan's many friends in Washington and the media say he's a sweetheart. To account for the occasional bloodlust in his rhetoric, some of them offer the defense of poetic license. Rhetorical overkill is a professional hazard of Washington punditry, the argument goes, especially the twist-and-shout kind that Buchanan mastered on TV. To be heard above the noise on Crossfire, he has to talk tougher than he is. Buchanan's brother James says that's what explains the "Zulus" remark. "He was speaking off the top of his head. He didn't call them 'jungle bunnies...
...just to spite them all. In Wonda Why They Call U Bytch he offers up a dishearteningly crass justification for calling women cruel names. In Ambitionz az a Ridah he raps, conspiratorially, "Now these money-hungry bitches gettin' suspicious/ Started plottin' and plannin' on a scheme to come and twist us." Since his last album, Shakur has switched from Interscope to Death Row Records, home to controversy-courting rappers Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre, and in the song 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted Shakur engages in a boastful duet with Snoop that revels shamelessly but tellingly in their shared...