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...ropes and grappling hooks up onto the decks of the Dewi Madrim and swarming up the ship's sides. As his cohorts smashed in the windows of the bridge with their automatic rifles, one of the men pinned the sole officer on duty in a corner and pressed the barrel of a pistol to his head. "They asked him to tell them where the rest of the crew were," recounts the chemical tanker's captain at the time, Surahmat Johar. "I was sleeping in my cabin. All of us were then gathered in one room. They tied our hands tight...
...you’re a local city candidate or councillor, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel,” Winters said. “You cannot lose by shooting at Harvard...
...high profile, violent and harassing crimes has dropped noticeably. Still, last week’s robbery serves as a reminder that security at Harvard should not neglect any part of campus—and that students must use a little common sense if they find themselves looking down the barrel...
...parts of the copyright law that make sense to them. And we tend to behave in ways we think it’s unlikely will get us into trouble. I would argue that as long as finding KaZaA users to sue remains as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, industry executives will probably not turn their efforts towards cracking down on college iTunes users or even Wirehog, unless they feel they can sue Apple or Mark Zuckerberg and get the software itself removed from the market...
...decline. By some estimates, the country's current proven reserves will be depleted in as little as 14 years. Meanwhile, it is not economically feasible to drill largely untapped petroleum pools believed to lie beneath western China's desolate Tarim Basin, even with prices at $50 a barrel...