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...scant attention the mainstream American press devotes to any hurricane??s path through the impoverished islands of the Caribbean is certainly frustrating. But because of the grievous destruction in both human and material terms, Jeanne seems a particularly outrageous case—almost all attention was focused on far less deadly damage to southern Florida. After all, it’s a swing state...
American news organizations should, obviously, cover the hurricane??s progress through one of our largest and most populous states, but a disaster as serious as that which befell Haiti warrants more than a few lines at the end of an AP wire. The misery now engulfing Gonaives is as serious as any natural disaster America has encountered over the past decade. The city’s sewage system was ripped apart, people are being evacuated because of fears of disease and food is so scarce that survivors have rioted...
...They can’t break me ‘cause they didn’t make me,” he said, quoting boxer Rubin “Hurricane?? Carter...
...that despite Penn’s national ranking, home-field advantage and large margins of victory this season, they were supposed to play out another classic, down-to-the-wire Harvard-Penn game. Instead, Penn played the role of Mike Tyson to Harvard’s “Hurricane?? Peter McNeeley—a much-hyped, quickly decided matchup...
...stop for truckers bound for Canada craving a hot meal. We fix our toothpick dispenser with a bang on the counter and carry hot plates stacked up our arms, while trying to soothe the extremely overworked short-order cook. We use violent metaphors like “hurricane?? and “slamming” for understaffed busy moments—common to the 11 p.m.-7 a.m. crew, which is also the smallest (Scotty’s motto: “We never close”). We call everybody “hon?...