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...officer was beaming like an expectant father getting ready to pass out cigars. Maybe even Cuban cigars. "In the next 48 hours we will have the first migrant Haitian born in Guantanamo, which we are all kind of looking forward to," announced Brigadier General George H. Walls of the Marines last week. Right on schedule came the new arrival: a baby boy (6 lbs. 8 oz.) born to a 20-year-old Haitian woman. The infant raises a ticklish diplomatic issue: Are the children of Haitian refugees born on the Guantanamo ("Gitmo") Bay Naval Base entitled to U.S. citizenship? Absolutely...
...read about people attending a funeral in pinks and turquoises and singing along to Bette Midler ("Dress for a Brazilian party!" the invitation -- from the deceased -- read); about a missing cat identifiable by "a rhinestone collar w/name and electronic cat door opener"; about women from Los Angeles hiring migrant workers to wait in line for them to buy watches shaped like cucumbers or bacon and eggs. On Hollywood Boulevard I saw a HISTORIC LANDMARK sign outside the site of "The First Custom T-Shirt Shop in California," flyers on the wall promoting a group called Venal Opulence...
...Green lost, and companies continue to pollute, cars continue to pollute, streams are fouled, the water table is drawn down, pesticides are air-sprayed over migrant workers. And the recycling truck comes once a week to pick up everyone's six glass jars, five pounds of newspapers and three tin cans...
...does make me uncomfortable at times to work, say, in Roxbury or with migrant farm workers, and then to come back to a comfortable house in Concord," Coles says...
...Mulie Jarju, 33, a migrant worker from Gambia, starred last year in a prizewinning film, Letters from Alou, about the plight of Africans employed illegally in Spain under conditions close to those of slave labor. Today Jarju cannot find work in Spain as either actor or laborer and faces deportation...