Word: liberian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with what their inhabitants are up to. “West Africa,” he writes, “is the land where God came to learn to wait. And then wait a little longer.” He describes how a ship of relief supplies for the Liberian civil war has to wait for rice. And then wait for the slings to load the rice, and the man who knows where the slings are, and then the man with the keys to that place. And so on. And then, he cuts to a press conference where a military...
...February Eleventh is the birthday of its proprietress Ruth Dorsla, a Liberian-born designer whose dreamy specialties include silk embroidery, crochet and hand-dyes in items such as wraps, ponchos, dresses, blouses, dusters and scarves. It's a shop that satisfies the appetites of rock-star aggressives and ethereal earth goddesses equally. Her hand-dyes are known for their exceptional and sometimes startling color combinations, a talent she attributes to "having no color sense." Dorsla explains that unlike in New York, where black is a fashion staple (a code she encountered upon arriving at the Fashion Institute of Technology...
...prepare for last week's city council meeting, the campaign leaders prepared scenarios following eight immigrants from entry to citizenship. The routes to naturalization ranged from five to 25 years, for a Liberian refugee on a student visa...
...journalists, who were arrested after Liberian authorities found a partial shooting script in the crew's hotel room, issued a written statement from Monrovia Central Prison saying they wanted "to express our unreserved apology to both his Excellency the President of Liberia, and the people of Liberia, for any offense which our actions or statements have caused... we will discontinue this project as regards Liberia...
...Liberian president Charles Taylor, who accused the four of "yellow journalism" and of coming to Liberia with preconceived ideas about the government's role in gunrunning and diamond smuggling, was terse. "We are not expelling the journalists," said Taylor, "but they are free to leave whenever they want...