Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cases before the House ethics committee are stacking up like planes at Washington's National Airport, and so are the embarrassments for Congress. After the committee investigates Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich for a questionable book deal, it must consider Ohio Republican Donald Lukens, convicted in May of having sex with a 16-year-old girl. Then it will weigh the case of Illinois Democrat Gus Savage, accused of fondling an unwilling Peace Corps volunteer during a March trip to Zaire. Last week the committee agreed to investigate Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, who has admitted that he had an affair with...
...this striking work is that it reads like a crime novel. But its protagonist, Jay Carsey, at age 47 really was president of Charles County Community College in Maryland. And on May 19, 1982, days before commencement, he really did withdraw $28,000 from the bank, drive to the airport, mail several letters, down some vodkas and board a flight. One of the letters was a brief note of resignation. One was a short statement to his wife that he was leaving because he was a "physical and psychological disaster." A postcard, to a close friend who was the college...
...vividly portrays the experience of a modern immigrant, dipping into the violent world of illegal documents, desperation and dark beaches in Florida. "There are national airlines flying the world that do not appear in any directory... we are refugees and mercenaries and guest workers; you watch us sleeping in airport lounges; you watch us unwrapping the last of our native foods..." Mukherjee gives us a strong sense of this under-world, and also of the Indian culture Jyoti is escaping...
After losing his prisoner at the airport, Douglas grouses, "I just hope there's a nip in this building who speaks fucking English...
...late yesterday the helmeted, heavily armed soldiers, equipped with flak jackets and backpacks, were still at the airport and had not been deployed in town. Federal marshals, however, were already there...