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What is this? Where are we? Good question. Technically, we are in American ; Samoa, an "unincorporated territory" of seven tiny volcanic islands administered since 1951 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Physically, we are midway between Hawaii and Australia, on the only piece of American soil south of the equator, and on the very edge of the international date line (this is one of the last places on earth where the day begins). Officially, we are celebrating Flag Day, the 89th anniversary of the first raising of the Stars and Stripes on this palm-fringed South Sea bubble...
Polsky: "When you're talking about quotes you've got to mention Lenny Falape, the little known muse of Western Samoa. I remember when I was a kid I would sit on the porch and talk for hours on end with Dr. Falape, studying his every utterance. This, of course, was before he won the Nobel Peace Prize. In a nutshell, he truly transcends language...
Dukakis has some 40 full-time paid staffers working in Texas and an estimated 2000 volunteers across the state, whose 183 Democratic delegates is the largest of the 19 Super Tuesday states and American Samoa...
...Aebi took the boat. Last week she triumphantly returned to New York harbor, completing a 29-month, 27,000-mile circumnavigation. Aebi unwittingly jeopardized her chance to be the youngest person ever to make the trip alone when she gave a friend a ride from Pago Pago to Western Samoa, a distance of only 75 miles. Still, setting records was not the point. Said her father, as the champagne flowed: "She's become a very accomplished person...
...Philippines said they had a government but it wouldn't be arriving for a couple of months. The president of Zambia told me he would only help if I could set the U.N. to do roll call in "reverse alphabetical" order. Samoa had gone fishing and nobody knew when it would be back...