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...minutes out of Robertsfield airport, the plane began to pitch and shake. That prompted a hurried announcement over the intercom: "Don't panic. The flight - it's OK." Passengers aboard the aging Russian plane laughed or glanced out the window at the lush Liberian countryside below. Most of them were used to flying West Africa's skies. An air pocket was nothing. An engine falling off - that would be something to worry about. A few minutes later the plane had landed safely and the passengers, most of them bound for Freetown in neighboring Sierra Leone, were ushered into the airport...
...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...
...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...