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...Jane Harvard, burdened by papers, looking for a quiet restaurant in the Square, what do the milling crowds, the rows of portable lavatories all mean? Is there a purpose to the social event the Head has blossomed into? "It's like an L.L. Bean convention," said one insightful visitor from Dartmouth...
Later Huseynov pulls a stack of photographs from a folder and asks a visitor, "Are you a strong person?" The photos show a male corpse that has been beaten and maimed. Small twigs poke out of sockets that once contained eyes. The body bears a gash from groin to throat, apparently made to kill the victim by disemboweling him. "This was in the village of Masis," says ; Huseynov, referring to a town in central Armenia. "I can show you his death certificate if you want...
...claimed more than 100 lives, will not go away. On the contrary, it has escalated into something very close to civil war. In both republics ferocious animosities generated by the rivalries have brought to the fore nationalist groups threatening secession. Indeed, traveling between the two republics, a visitor finds it difficult to imagine how they can continue to exist in the same country much longer...
...from Tuscarora, rancher Robin Van Norman drives a visitor into a verdant canyon sited down by U.S. Forest Service land in the Independence Mountains. Until gold was discovered, the Van Normans owned the rights to graze their cattle there. Now, on the very fence they built to control their herd, the Freeport-McMoRan Gold Co. has posted a big KEEP OUT sign. Waste rock from the mining operation has begun pushing toward the canyon like a moraine advancing at the prow of a glacier...
...feel like I'm watching a car accident," said John Egan, 24, a New Yorker waiting to get into the visitor's gallery...