Word: rotarianism
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...These statements offer little comfort, though, to squatters facing imminent eviction. In theory, the government prohibits the destruction of squatter settlements on Crown land where residents have no alternative housing. But owners won't back down. Local businessman and Rotarian Peter Drysdale leads a campaign to build 700 homes for squatters. He says landowners take advantage of the squatters' lack of rights, citing the case of a woman who organized an unofficial rental agreement with one family of indigenous Fijians. The woman had electricity connected to her shack, but then the chief plugged the freezer of his fish shop into...
...After attending the Maui Writers’ Conference two weeks earlier, he worried that his chances of publishing anything were slim, because he had no “special hook or angle.” Bowing his head at the beginning of the meeting, though, Keith heard his fellow Rotarian J. Kenneth Sanders recite a poem he attributed to Mother Teresa. Suddenly, Keith realized that the words were his own, a set of 10 “paradoxical commandments” written in his sophomore year at Harvard as part of a Harvard Student Agencies-published booklet for student council...
...wearing a suit made by his friend Gus. But after last week's bombings, Karim's daughter, who works for a Dallas financial-consulting company, called in tears. She had been taunted. "You were born in this country. Don't worry about it," Karim told her. A Muslim, a Rotarian and an American success story, he says, "This is my home, and I am proud to be here. I will never forget what this country gave...
...That's what they're getting at when they mock George W. Bush for going to bed at 10 o'clock - low mental capacity, meaning a certain Republican dullness. It's an almost subliminal lifestyle point. Bill Clinton stayed up half the night, policy-wonking. Bush is a Rotarian snore...
...little girl, she shook the hand of Henry Adams. I recall the day when I was a child working for the summer as a Senate page and the aged Herbert Hoover visited the Senate chamber, not a celebrity so much as a curiosity. He looked like a Rotarian Santa Claus. After the Senators and pages all shook his hand--a dry hand, soft and bony at the same time, like grasping a small, fragile bird--another page, overcome by his (rather forgiving) sense of history, exclaimed, "I'm never going to wash my hand again...