Word: caribbeans
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...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...
...Foreign Cultures requirement that require only a knowledge of English. Add to this that there are only seven Foreign Cultures courses that do require knowledge of another language, and also the fact that the English-only courses cover such diverse topics as the contemporary Middle East, Mesoamerican Civilizations, Caribbean Societies, 20th century Russian culture, European Jewish culture, Korea and China. These offerings are tremendously limiting, right? How could anyone could find an interesting class with so few offerings...
...here at five o’clock every morning,” Christmas says with a soft Caribbean accent as he details his daily routine of scrubbing, dusting and vacuuming from...
Christmas says that when he came to America in 1981 from Dominica, a small island in the Caribbean, he considered going back to school...
...book’s ending is jarringly shoddy in its treatment of Abby. Rather than enter the witness protection program, Mitch steals millions from the Mafia (the eponymous firm’s true owners) and makes plans to spend the rest of his life sailing the Caribbean with Abby and his brother Ray. Abby has left her career, her family and even her dog behind her. Mitch, on the other hand, has brought his brother—the only relative he speaks to—with him and he has already abandoned his career. Abby’s fear that...