Word: backyard
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...elite are after money: some just want power. A candidate angling to fill the seat of the deposed Aristide is Emmanuel Constant, leader of the paramilitary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti. He presides from a wicker chair in his backyard over a ragtag group that has been accused of committing many of the 133 political executions and 55 disappearances documented over the past four months. Constant protests his group's innocence. "If anybody from F.R.A.P.H. kills somebody," he says, casually tossing his cigarette butt into a barren flower bed, "it is personal, not political...
...their citation, the judges wrote, "Using strong investigative reporting techniques, Hull spends time on the streets to get the personal stories behind a national problem. By choosing the Midwest city of Omaha as a backdrop, he demonstrates that this national issue is right at home in everyone's backyard...
There is no quick fix. Political discourse and debate is time-consuming and often frustrating. In the meanwhile, we will still have to deal with skinheads demonstrating in our backyard. In this case, we still don't need to just tolerate them. After all, our claim to free speech is just as valid as theirs. We may not be able to shut them up, but we can certainly outnumber and out-shout them...
...earliest memories as a child was jumping from rock to rock in a creek near my backyard. Cliche, yes, but true. I wonder how many others remember fishing by a river, swimming in a lake or playing in a creek as a child...
...insisted, was "less than the salary of the Chef who works at the Teamster headquarters ((for Carey's predecessors))." Press accounts trumpeted similar blue collar images: the beat-up car, the suits off the rack from Macy's, the five kids to support, the vacations spent in his Queens backyard...