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...freedom ring out for all our brothers and sisters to the north!" The unlikely crier, Buffalo disk jockey Darren McKee, stands near the Peace Bridge that links New York State with Ontario, bellowing excerpts from a Washington Post article through a bullhorn to Canadians on the far shore. WXYT, a Detroit AM station, provides Canadians in neighboring Windsor with an hour-long reading of the same article. The show, seditiously dubbed "Radio Free Windsor," has a loftier purpose, according to Michael Packer, WXYT's director of operations: "It's a reminder to the American side of the importance of freedom...
Kathryn Brookins, a Mission Hill resident andeditor of the Mission Hill News, suggested in aninterview last month that the companies might beset up off-shore in an effort to escape scrutiny...
Dwight Merren, an administrator for the Midland Bank Trust, which administers the Cayman Island CRICO, said he did not believe a move is imminent for the Barbados company. Hesaid he believed the lower taxes paid by theoff-shore company would make it difficult to leavethe Caribbean...
After New York's World Trade Center is rocked by a thundering explosion, police round up a string of Arab immigrants as suspects, including an Egyptian radical who was admitted to the U.S. by mistake. Off the shore of New York's Long Island, a rusty tramp steamer called the Golden Venture runs aground, disgorging nearly 300 frightened Chinese trying to enter the country illegally; 10 die. Newly elected President Bill Clinton, reneging on a campaign promise, denies entry to Haitian boat people, then is blindsided by hostile public reaction when his first two choices for Attorney General turn...
Many of the first immigrants from the British Isles were unwilling voyagers. Long before Australia became the fatal shore for millions of convicts, North America was London's principal penal colony. Others came to the New World as indentured servants, bound into service to pay the cost of their passage for specified terms -- usually three to seven years -- before being set free. During the 17th century, for example, 75% of Virginia's colonists arrived as servants, some of whom had been kidnapped by unscrupulous "recruiters...