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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...director promptly resigned and 180 of his employees staged a walkout, thereby shutting down the facility. Secretary of State for * Information Aubelin Jolicoeur only made matters worse by going on the radio and declaring that the strikers were ''without honor.'' Said he: ''If I saw them, I would spit in their faces.'' The government's action in the TV case led to violent demonstrations in Port-au-Prince and several other cities. Protesters blocked highways by erecting burning barricades. Along the Harry Truman Sea Drive in the capital, angry youths hurled rocks and pieces of iron at passing motorists. Observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI AT THE EDGE OF THE VOLCANO A government hangs on for life | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...Madonna's backup dancer, her "dresser" (a role in which his tasks included wiping sweat from her sometimes-naked body) and later as her designer. But mostly, by his telling, he functioned as her doormat. And, occasionally, her garbage can (one of his chores was allowing his sister to spit cough drops into his palm). "I find no excuse for Madonna's grossly unfair treatment of me," he acknowledges. She jilts him repeatedly - summoning him to New York and then reneging on her offer of a place to stay, or forcing him to eat half the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life with My Sister Madonna | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...DON’T SPIT IN THE SOUP?...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Half-Century of Flouting the Mainstream at Dudley Co-op | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...sign over the entrance to the dining room reads, “Don’t spit in the soup, we?...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Half-Century of Flouting the Mainstream at Dudley Co-op | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...dining hall. She returned with a small piece of jello to cleanse her palate. “It’s starting to taste really disgusting—not gonna lie,” she admitted.Meanwhile, in the Dunster courtyard, a goat (feet and all) rotated on a spit. “Ugh,” sighed Tan, “That’s really not something I need right now.”At Lowell, Tan switched condiments, choosing to moisturize her dry chickwich with a healthy spread of applesauce. She said it “kind of?...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, Jun Li, and H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Chickwich Challenge! | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

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