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Ellison’s stunning announcement came amid reports in the media this week that Harvard was still waiting on a $115 million donation from the Oracle CEO. Ellison publicly announced the gift in June...
...offer came from suppliers accredited by wildlife and conservation groups. Today, it's not placard wavers but curious diners hovering at the entrance of this intimate, 40-seat venue, anxious to try dishes that sound strangely irresistible to anyone bored by the metropolis's usual dining options. Sitting amid hanging fabrics, Buddhist statuary and lots of red and gold, customers peruse an elaborate menu that may include crocodile (seared in vine leaves and served with a Chinese plum dip), peacock (presented with a vanilla-and-tomato confit) or scorpion (dipped in chocolate). The "Lovebug Salad" sees a bowl of mixed...
...Still others aboard the gathered whaleships speculated that that the approaching steamer might be the Confederate raider that had, amid great controversy, stopped in Melbourne the previous winter. Over the past four years of war, the Confederates had dispatched at least twelve such cruisers into the world's oceans, charging them with destroying private, unarmed Union merchant, fishing, and whaling vessels. But the war was over. Weeks ago these sailors, when variously docked in San Francisco, Honolulu and other ports, had read in newspapers that the war between the North and the South had ended nearly three months earlier...
...Confederate officer aboard the Shenandoah who witnessed the conflagration recalled "a scene never to be forgotten by any one who beheld it." As flames consumed them, the eight crewless vessels drifted like crazed, rudderless ghost-ships amid the ice-floes. "The red glare from the eight burning vessels shone far and wide over the drifting ice of those savage seas; the crackling of the fire as it made its devouring way through each doomed ship fell on the still air like upbraiding voices." Chaos reigned: "The sea was filled with boats driving hither and thither, with no hand to guide...
...Sixteen years after General Robert E. Lee's troops stacked their muskets at Appomattox Courthouse, the Confederacy's president, Jefferson Davis, recalled events of mid-1865 from a decidedly different perspective than that experienced by those aboard the Shenandoah and her fleet of captive whaleships amid the Bering Strait's ice-floes...