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Like much of Jamaica, Port Antonio, the closest town to the house where we stayed, is fairly depressed. The fifth largest city in the island nation, it was once a major West Indies port, a key stop on the banana trade route. The few central streets are lined with small stores, but on hot, humid, Languid days, most of the town's activity takes place in a bustling indoor-outdoor marketplace. Outside, stands offer groceries and producer. Inside, the market is divided into two areas, in one, Jamaicans purchase clothing and choose from among rows upon rows of shoes...
...heavenly promise of America and the hellish reality of Haiti lies a way station on the Cuban coast called Guantanamo Bay. There, at a U.S. naval base, more than 200 Haitians have languished in tin-roofed barracks for up to 17 months, surrounded by wire fences and plagued by banana rats. Last year the Bush Administration ruled that they had plausible claims for political asylum. But because most of them tested positive for the AIDS virus, they are barred from the U.S. Suspicious of their captors and even their doctors, many have staged a hunger strike, and their situation...
This prompted the Post, which doesn't have a dime to buy a banana from a pushcart, to lodge a lawsuit against the News. Hoffenberg charged that Zuckerman is a "vulture" and "body snatcher" who is trying to destroy the Post with his "crazy Kamikaze attack." The pages of both papers, meanwhile, barked daily accusations of impropriety and nasty innuendos about each other -- behaving, in other words, like tabloids. IT'S WAR! shrieked a Post banner. DAILY NEWS RAIDS THE POST...
...Boxer shorts, socks and turtlenecks are going fast," said Don Dixon, a sales associate at the Banana Republic on Bennett Street...
...marvels an aide somewhat hyperbolically. Clinton's suits are still bought off the rack from Dillard's, a down-home Little Rock department store. In his casual wear, Clinton favors jeans and khakis, not even bothering to follow his generation in its mid-life enthusiasm for the Gap and Banana Republic. The President-elect's constant battles with his weight might influence fashion were not Levi's already hitting it big with Dockers, which are cut with a baby boomer's sagging physique in mind. "Bill Clinton is half hip and half hick," explains Steve Rabinowitz, one of the traveling...