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Though he promised the finalists they would receive their prizes eventually—“you’ll get them,” he said—he told them the box containing their awards had vanished in transit between the Shorenstein Center’s offices at the Kennedy School of Government and the Charles Hotel, a few blocks away...
...news that Amtrak president George Warrington is stepping down to run New Jersey Transit is a serious blow, and it comes at a particularly bad time as the troubled agency tries to make the case for a big increase in federal funding to an increasingly skeptical group of Washington legislators...
...walked blithely through the mobs during a riot in Harlem, with Molotov cocktails sailing off the roofs of apartment houses. I imagined that as a journalist, I was merely an invisible witness, as harmless as a recording secretary, as if I had letters of transit allowing me to pass between cops and rioters completely without consequence. The rioters left me alone but only because, with my blue eyes and flopping forelock of light-brown hair, they thought, in the half-light, that I was Bobby Kennedy. Otherwise, why would a white man be dumb enough to wander around like that...
...walked blithely through the mobs during a riot in Harlem, with Molotov cocktails sailing off the roofs of apartment houses. I imagined that as a journalist, I was merely an invisible witness, as harmless as a recording secretary, as if I had letters of transit allowing me to pass between cops and rioters completely without consequence. The rioters left me alone but only because, with my blue eyes and flopping forelock of light-brown hair, they thought, in the half-light, that I was Bobby Kennedy. Otherwise, why would a white man be dumb enough to wander around like that...
...living and looking for work in South Africa, some involved in occasional xenophobic clashes with the local unemployed. Border officials, police and military are having to deal with an influx of up to 250 Zimbabweans a day, most of whom enter the country illegally and spend the night in transit camps before being trucked back over the border...