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...poorest country in the Western Hemisphere has a booming fast-cash industry: kidnapping. Ralph Charles knows this firsthand. In November he was held for two days in the slum of Cité Soleil, a square mile crammed with 200,000 people and unmanageable crime outside Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. Charles, the owner of a soccer team, says his kidnappers never bothered with disguise. "I'm a big guy with a bad temper, but I kept my cool. They had guns bigger than me. They have lots of them," he says. The ring has hundreds of collaborators, including teenagers...
BUSH President Clinton has shown a certain deference to me based perhaps on me being the older guy. And I appreciate that. It's something I've seen firsthand many times, in very subtle ways, like today, walking in, "You go first." That kind of stuff. We come from an old line, my family, kind of courteous kind of guys, and this means something to me. It's not just social niceties. There are many ways he makes me feel that this is a two-way street and that he's enjoying...
...students also say they appreciate the cultural nuances of attending a course taught by a foreign professor. They say their professor’s experience with labs and institutes in Berlin enhances the course, which includes an examination of the architectural designs of Berlin labs.Schmidgen, Ok says, displays a firsthand familiarity with the way labs and institutes are organized in Berlin.“What makes the class most fun is that he has all these anecdotes about Germany that he can share with us,” says Michael E. Coulter ’08.Students add that the professor?...
...Mosul was a surprise detour on Rice's long-scheduled swing through the Middle East, and it involved trips on a C-17 cargo plane and a Blackhawk helicopter. She went to take a firsthand look at the work of the first of 16 U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Teams to be deployed in Iraq, a program that she has been instrumental in developing. Each team will comprise about 50 State Department officials and the same number of military civil affairs personnel. Their mission will be to funnel money and expertise to grassroots Iraqi political leaders, business people and non-governmental organizations...
...says.BOY FROM THE BAYOUA Louisiana native, Green grew up in a single-parent home, which he says helps him better empathize with many of Cambridge’s residents.“It forces you to grow up faster,” he says. “I know firsthand what it’s like to wonder if you’re going to be able to pay the bills. I know what it’s like to be the working poor.”Currently an IT consultant for non-profits, Green moved to Cambridge...