Word: port
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes, to clear his head, Clinton put on an old Georgetown University sweatsuit and went for a run on the Port Meadow about half a mile away. His hair was shaggy. He wore a full beard. He was an American male, 23 years old, and like millions of other young American males, he was trying to figure out what to do about going...
...surprised at his old world politics. The democratic regime is simply too far left and Haiti too small to elicit an impassioned response from Bush. Though not a communist, Aristide is a left-wing priest, steeped in liberation theology, known and adored in the ghetto that is most of Port-au-Prince. (His beautiful little book is called In the Precincts of the Poor...
Defying the recession, cruise ships leave port with their cabins almost filled...
...hundreds, Haitian boat people in search of asylum in the U.S. were delivered by Coast Guard cutters back to Port-au-Prince. Each was fingerprinted and photographed by local immigration officers. Just routine procedure, police assured scores of foreign journalists. But the swiftness with which the returnees melted into the population suggested that these Haitians were more than a little skeptical -- perhaps with good cause...
...past two months. "Cap Haitien," Marcelin answered, referring to a city in north Haiti. "You were over there in Guantanamo, not Cap Haitien," one of the men responded. "O.K., we'll come for you. We'll come and kill you." Soon after that, Marcelin boarded a bus back to Port-au-Prince and went into hiding...