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...fellow buccaneer, the captain of one of the replacement crews, first turned to piracy in the late 1970s and reckons he has taken 20 ships since. He and his crew are from the coastal villages of the Sangir Islands, thousands of kilometers east of Babi near the southern tip of the Philippines. Like Palembang, Sangir is renowned in the piracy world for producing Indonesia's best sailors. The squat 54-year-old captain has been arrested twice, once in Malaysia when he was busted for smuggling bales of Cambodian marijuana, and once in China. Both times he was released after...
...triad who agreed to pay the captain and his crew $9,000 upfront and another $50,000 on delivery. The triad also hired a crew of bajing loncat and arranged fake papers for the ship under a new name. On the agreed night, two speedboats raced west out of Babi. After an hour or two, they cut the engines and waited, bobbing in the swell of passing carriers. In the first boat, the boarders assembled their satang, lashing together lengths of bamboo; the remaining twine they used for sword belts and handcuffs. In the early hours, the Thai tanker appeared...
...Their work over, the captain and his crew collected their payoff and caught a ride to Manila with the new Filipino owner. From there, they flew to Jakarta and split up, laying low in Sangir for a year before returning to Batam, an island city neighboring Babi. The captain has no idea where the palm oil was sold, but says shipowners often organize pirate attacks as part of an insurance fraud. Only the Chinese bosses know all the details, he says...
...with a budget of only five thousand dollars, a figure that has not been adjusted since the 1980s. It’s a tall order, but one which has been tackled enthusiastically by Jenny I. Marsh ’03, Adrien C. Finlay ’03 and K. Babi Das ’03, who is also a Crimson editor, three first-time producers and their staff...
...Babi Das: Just arrived home from my little sister's junior high musical. On the way back we stopped by to pick up cheesecake and congratulatory balloon. Am online to check to see when my plane departs tomorrow and to see whether or not I indeed have a corporate finance problem set due Monday, as suspected--no word yet from my problem set group. Will be off to pick my sister up from a post concert party...