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...leaking sloop called Dieu Veut (God Wants). For two days they rolled and pitched across the rough stretch of sea between Haiti and Cuba that sailors call the Windward Passage. They had left their homes in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, a town of 1,000 perched on the shore of Haiti's impoverished southern claw, provisioned with only two bags of rice and a single 50-gal. barrel of water. Even at sea they continued to take on new passengers -- some arriving in dugout canoes, others by swimming. All were convinced that Dieu Veut was their only chance...
...make up a separate and uniquely destitute class, devoid of land, possessions and hope. Having sold everything but what they could carry, they own nothing. Farmers can no longer till because someone else has title to their land. Fishermen watch as canoes they once owned are paddled away from shore by someone else...
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, Mass.--Since sometime before World War II, the Essex County Club, nestled here in the rolling hills of the Massachusetts North Shore, has annually played host to the Harvard 25th reunion's day-long outing of golf, tennis and symposia...
Today: An exclusive North Shore country club and Harvard's copy relationship with the outside companies who provide services for the reunions...
Moving to shore up his shaky White House staff, Clinton hired former Reagan communications chief David Gergen and transferred George Stephanopoulos to a new post. Gergen, a Republican, is expected to become Clinton's new spokesman. The shift came at the end of a week in which the White House tried to recover from a string of political gaffes. After dismissing seven travel-office workers for alleged mismanagement and then inappropriately calling in the FBI, the White House reinstated five of them within days. The President also denied charges that his Administration has "gone Hollywood" and apologized for tying...