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...much as $48,000 each to gangsters in order to get to America. They are part of a wave from China's coastal Fujian province; no one knows what their real numbers are. Every now and then a boat stuffed with human cargo will wash up on a beachfront community. But many other landings go undetected. Police estimate there are 300 gang-run safe houses where illegals live as they prepare to enter the workplace. New York City's Fujian association estimates there are 500,000 illegals from the province in the U.S.; the CIA puts the undocumented influx...
Jamaica's cast of characters is worthy of a Dickens novel, except Dickens' characters never said "ganga" so much. Along the beach, each salesman has a name appropriate to his task. Chef grills the jerk chicken; Jelly-Man sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach...
...Loida N. Lewis, the mother of Leslie N. Lewis '95, was "extremely supportive" of her daughter's decision to decline a plush job offer in her hometown of New York City in favor of slinging hash at a trendy Miami beachfront eatery...
...Arkansas strongman, took a tough stand against an old challenger from The New York Times, columnist William Safire. In his column last Tuesday, Safire had the gall to call the First Lady a "congenital liar" for her obsfucation about "Travelgate," her wildly successful commodities career and some obscure beachfront property in Arkansas...
...impressed readers and reviewers with their perceptiveness, their quiet humor and their blend of the courtly conservatism and racy spirits that have survived in and around that seductive old seaport for three centuries. Humphreys is married to a lawyer, has two sons at Harvard and lives in a green beachfront house on one of South Carolina's fragile barrier islands...