Word: haitians
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...support of Saintely Paul, a Harvard janitor who was fired in June after his supervisor found him unconscious at work. Paul claims he had previously told his supervisor about his fainting spells, for which he was seeking medical attention. Paul addressed the council, recounting his story in his native Haitian Creole through an interpreter. “My supervisor came in and took a picture of me while I was unconscious,” he said. “The next day when I came in, my boss told me I had no job. I was fired...
...underestimating terrorists neither so grave nor so fresh, it would be tempting to look at the seven men indicted on conspiracy charges for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and laugh. Not so much at the suspects--five American citizens, a legal immigrant from Haiti and an illegal Haitian national, all of whose hardscrabble bios make them seem more sad than sinister--but at those who considered them a real threat to wage, as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales put it, "a full ground war against the United States." FBI deputy director John Pistole conceded that the men, part...
...Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...
...Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...
...Providing security is currently mostly the preserve of some 9,000 U.N. peacekeepers under Brazilian command, on whom Préval will depend as long as the situation demands it. He plans to formally abolish the Haitian military, unofficially defunct since President Aristide dissolved it in 1995, although one of the greatest threats to Haiti's stability since then has come from the disgruntled former soldiers who eventually overthrew Aristide's government two years...