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Elián González was one of three people who survived the sinking of a 17-foot aluminum boat carrying Cuban refugees to the United States.
It is difficult to leap from this to Motion's settled opinion that Keats "interpret[ed] writing as a humanitarian mission," or that "he is always engaged with the 'Liberal side of the Question,' even when sinking most deeply into the imagination."
Take a breather, as Barcelonans do, sinking into a chair at a sidewalk table to linger over a drink and snack, read a newspaper, and people-watch.
They now believe, says the paper, that the militiamen took pains to cover their tracks, in one case burning their victims' bodies and then dumping the ashes into crocodile-filled lakes, in another putting bodies in a boat and sinking it at sea.
As Jared Hohlt in Slate , the comedian got sick at the point where he needed to reinvent himself to keep from sinking into obscurity.