Cashing In On Little Eli N
Yet when the pollsters weighed in, the public turned out to take a different view. Most approved of the raid to return Elián to his father, and many people made clear that they were tired of the whole melodrama. On Capitol Hill, Republicans scheduled, then postponed, congressional hearings. That did not necessarily mean, however, that the exploitation of Elián was winding down. The Feds’ seizure of the boy was roiling politics from Miami to Washington, and the Internet auction service, eBay, was auctioning off Elián curios....