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With the diplomatic efforts ensnarled at the U.N., war planners aboard the U.S.S. Constellation mark targets and prepare for attack
...elsewhere--that has largely vanished from the screen. That war is the subject of ABC's Profiles from the Front Line (Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a surprisingly engrossing reality series that takes us along with a special-forces unit as it brings in an al-Qaeda suspect and aboard a smugglers' ship that the Navy has interdicted off Iraq. In the process, Profiles makes us realize that we have spent a year and a half fighting a war, with scant idea of what it looks like...
...Nile Although several companies ply the river with opulent cruise ships, one firm, Abercrombie & Kent, is heavily dependent on U.S. visitors. Before 9/11 so many Americans begged to get aboard that it was difficult to book passage without buying a package, which includes a stay at a decent Cairo hotel but not the Mena House. These days, for as little as $1,845?half the price of the package tour?you can book a four-day trip from Luxor to Aswan, or vice versa, on A&K's stately Sun Boat IV (800-323-7308). Flights from Cairo to Aswan...
...NILE. Although several companies ply the river with opulent cruise ships, one firm, Abercrombie & Kent, is heavily dependent on U.S. visitors. Before 9/11 so many Americans begged to get aboard that it was difficult to book passage without buying a package, which includes a stay at a decent Cairo hotel but not the Mena House. These days, for as little as $1,845--half the price of the package tour--you can book a four-day trip from Luxor to Aswan, or vice versa, on A&K's stately Sun Boat IV (800-323-7308). Flights from Cairo to Aswan...
...several hundred lines entitled "The Guinea Voyage" (1789), in part of which he depicted the birth of a baby in the wretched squalor of the slave decks. (Art and life were not so distinct: the black poet Ignatius Sancho, who later became a figure in literary London, was born aboard a slave ship en route from Africa to the Spanish West Indies in 1729.) In 1805 the Irish immigrant and repentant slaver Thomas Branagan published two huge epic poems against slavery, including the autobiographical "Penitential Tyrant; or, Slave Trader Reformed," and boldly sent copies to Thomas Jefferson, then President...