Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Preliminary numbers. Note: 'North America' includes Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and Canada. 'Other' includes Oceania. Source: Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...five days of relentless Caribbean storms left more than 150,000 people homeless amid billions of dollars in damage. Huge swaths of the northern coast, where Venezuela's chief ports and tourist resorts lie, are now uninhabitable. The devastation was doubly crushing because Venezuela is suffering one of its worst recessions ever. Decades of foul politics played just as large a role in this catastrophe as the week of foul weather. Venezuela has the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and is America's No. 1 foreign source of crude. But because a corrupt elite, los cogollos (slang for big shots...
Raman is a history concentrator in Mather House and captain of the crew team. Next year he will study sociology at the University of Bristol, doing research on Asian and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in Britain...
...next month Bob Marley: Soul Rebel (Thunder's Mouth; 144 pages; $22.95), by former Billboard reporter Maureen Sheridan, will be released, detailing the stories behind Marley's songs. Earlier this year a Marley-themed restaurant/ club opened at Universal Studios CityWalk in Orlando, Fla. The menu features Caribbean cuisine, and the decor is based on Marley's home in Kingston...
Marley, who died of cancer in 1981 at age 36, brought the Third World to the whole world. The dirt streets of the Jamaican slum of Trench Town, the myths and tales of the Caribbean, the wisdom and fire of the Old Testament--he drew from it all, creating reggae music, rebel psalms, that rang with poetry and prophecy. Romance, for him, was not incompatible with revolution; bullets and ballads were both the stuff of his work. He envisioned a world beyond this one but never lost sight of the horrors and joys of the here...