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...College of Hospitality Management. Instead, he got a three-day master class in crisis control in a Sheraton hotel with no air conditioning. "This experience was the worst to live through compared to all I have seen during the Lebanese war ... The mayor couldn't manage to find a bus...
...torment on top of tragedy, the deck seemed especially stacked against the Nathans. The 20-member extended family, including a newborn, a great-grandmother and a pregnant 22-year-old, fought its way out of the swamped housing project, only to languish for days on dry ground. A harrowing bus ride took the Nathans to Texas--and more disappointment. But when all seemed lost, grace arrived in the form of a stranger who offered her home, and with it, the space to be a family again...
When they finally boarded a bus for Houston, one of them was threatened at gunpoint by a thug from a rival housing project. They arrived at the Astrodome 16 hours later, only to be told they might not be able to stay. But in the milling crowd, Cheryl Graves, 47, stepped forward to invite all 20 of them to stay at her three-bedroom house in northwest Houston. Why would she take in total strangers? "Humanity," she says. "They can be here as long as they want." --By Nathan Thornburgh. With reporting by Deborah Fowler/Houston
...bus in response to a comment I made to him, while [I was] walking away from the bus,” Velissaris wrote. “He said, ‘Why don’t you say that to my face,’ as he approached me while I was holding a table, and punched me in the chin knocking my sunglasses off the top of my head...
...required documentation to work here. If you ask any one of them how bad their trip to the U.S. was, you would get the same story: The journey didn’t involve escaping bandits along a highway. It was, at most, an uncomfortable trip on a crowded bus. So, what did Kyle really learn? He gained insight into what it takes to enter the U.S. illegally. Gee, it was scary. It is probably just as scary to deal drugs or rob banks. De Beausset was trying to get a feeling for what it’s like to break...