Makiki

Jade Moon collected some modest interest on her investment in the shop, and with that and the two hundred and thirty dollars from the kye, she and Mr. Ha were able to purchase another rooming house, smaller than the one in Makiki, this one in

Excerpt: Honolulu by Alan Brennert 2009

Jade Moon collected some modest interest on her investment in the shop, and with that and the two hundred and thirty dollars from the kye, she and Mr. Ha were able to purchase another rooming house, smaller than the one in Makiki, this one in

Excerpt: Honolulu by Alan Brennert 2009

Chip was still in school when they lived in the squalid seclusion of the apartment in Makiki.

Beard 2010

In Makiki, in bed, chain-smoking and sipping her vodka tonic, Madam Ma had made little Chip practice curtseying and asking nicely for his food.

Beard 2010

Early on, the Ma family had an apartment in Makiki, but Madam Ma could not cook and would not clean.

Beard 2010

Mr. Obama's Makiki neighbors were mostly store clerks, restaurant workers and small-business owners, many aspiring to government jobs, says DeSoto Brown, a Honolulu historian and archivist at the Bishop Museum.

Obama Slept Here 2008

And while the golden strands of Waikiki two miles to the southeast and the exclusive suburbs further on have been heavily glossed by wealthy second-home buyers, lower Makiki is mostly the same as it was when "Barry" was here, shooting hoops and gobbling up plate lunches, a local medley of meat, sticky rice and often a "salad" made mostly from mayonnaise and macaroni.

Obama Slept Here 2008

Dubbed "lower Makiki" by real estate agents, this aging, middle-class neighborhood is one of the many forgotten areas of Honolulu, a patchwork where glitzy high-rises can sit alongside ethnic grocers, discount stores and karaoke bars.

Obama Slept Here 2008

Lefty (Soros funded) Think Progress is hammering McCain over whether or not Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Makiki actually said he condemned Hezbollah.

Think Progress » McCain Falsely Claims the Iraqi Prime Minister Has ‘Condemned Hezbollah’ 2006

The talking heads on the bought and paid for mainstream media can attempt to make the cease fire look like capitulation on al-Sadr's part and leave out the more interesting of the nine points, but the bottom line is that Makiki 's purpose in Basra was to take the weapons from al-Sadr's forces and now there is no talk about al-Sadr's weapons being turned in and al-Sadr is calling the shots.

The lesson of the lost library book and why the cover-up is worse than the crime Ellen Beth Gill 2008