Word: portering
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...booming, reveling in its modern self-image as a tolerantly multicultural place, London was having fun. The weekend before the bombings, the city had hosted the last few days of Wimbledon and a Live 8 concert in Hyde Park with more than 200,000 in attendance. "London," wrote Henry Porter in the Observer, "seems to be the hub of the world." And that was three days before the city won the right to hold the Olympics, beating out a field that included the only other cities that have traditionally had global hublike pretensions, Paris and New York...
...TIME's interview with CIA Director Porter Goss [June 27], you asked him, "Could the U.S. go to war again based on false intelligence?" Goss disingenuously replied that he "would not agree to surmise" that we did so. Why can't Administration officials simply speak the truth about our invasion of Iraq? The indisputable fact is that President Bush justified the attack on Iraq based on intelligence that proved to be wrong...
However, no one told me that I would spend the next two years of my life cooped up on Harvard’s campus, occasionally making it to the stores in the Square or the even rarer journey to Central or Porter Square...
...neighbor, Nan Tiya, 46, is sprinkling water on the earth floor of his unfinished house to banish bad spirits. A married father of two, he was dragooned as a porter for Burmese military units fighting Karen rebels. He rolls down his battered jungle boots to show scars caused by the shackles porters must wear. "When we were exhausted, they gave us nothing. Instead, they hit us. If someone didn't move, an officer would take a stick and beat the man to death." Nan Tiya claims he and other captives were ordered to bury the corpses of 17 porters...
...been director of the Central Intelligence Agency for just seven months when the onetime CIA spy had to cede much of his power to the new director of national intelligence, John Negroponte. But Porter Goss, 66, says he now has more time to run America's largest human intelligence agency. He sat down for his first interview with TIME's Timothy J. Burger...