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...took part in either this program in Poland and the USSR or an academic student exchange between the Soviet bloc countries and the United States. Both had the stated goals of promoting a cultural appreciation for—and understanding of—the “other side...
...Estonia, Härstedt climbed up the stairwell, fighting against gravity. Out on the deck, the ship's lights were on, and the moon was shining. The full range of human capacities was on display. Incredibly, one man stood to the side, smoking a cigarette, Härstedt remembers. Most people strained to hold on to the rolling ship and, at the same time, to look for life jackets and lifeboats. British passenger Paul Barney remembers groups of people standing still like statues. "I kept saying to myself, 'Why don't they try to get out of here?'" he later...
McGinley, 30, grew up in New Jersey, spent his teen years going slightly wild in Manhattan and in his early 20s settled on the arty Lower East Side. The fashion magazines of the time had a singular image of his peer group, and it was not a good one: hollow-cheeked and sallow-skinned with the lank look of a hungry junkie. That wasn't McGinley's crowd--healthy, happily sexual, not above living in the extreme fast lane sometimes but otherwise...
...cargo of these outbound ships tends to be on the less-than-glamorous side. The Savannah port's top export by volume is wood pulp. Other biggies include paper and paperboard, "drilling mud," kaolin clay, fabric and frozen chicken parts--in particular, chicken feet, beloved by Chinese gourmets. "We're sending raw materials to foreign countries, and in return, generally speaking, we're receiving finished goods," says John Trent, director of operations for the Georgia Ports Authority, which runs the Savannah port and a smaller operation in Brunswick that specializes in cars and bulk materials. What goes out weighs more...
...campaign. "These people have honorable records," he said in February. "And they're honorable people." But his new policy, which was stricter than what some senior advisers favored, undid all that straight talk and prompted a weeklong purge inside the campaign. A number of lobbyists were tossed over the side overnight, generating resentment. Most won't be missed much, but some will: gone is Loeffler, a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia, who played a central role in campaign fund raising and who functioned in effect as chief financial officer. As with others who departed, Loeffler's outside work was no secret...