Last week’s U.S. News and World Report featured the story of union leader Villeda Aldana, who says that in October 1999 he was held at gunpoint and ordered to call off a protest against Fresh Del Monte Produce in Guatemala. After several hours of enduring death threats and physical abuse, Villeda recalls, he finally capitulated […]
Seth Green
Seth Green is a former TAP Online intern.
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Close Encounter
OXFORD, ENGLAND — I was recently standing in line at a McDonald’s here, when a drunk Englishman began harassing me. “Is George Bush your hero?” he demanded. I tried to ignore him, but he followed me and a few of my American friends outside. Then, as we walked down Oxford’s central street, he grabbed one […]

