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...another orange speck flickers on the radar screen, the captain gently pushes his twin-engine Lambro up to 30 knots. Two hours into an overnight patrol, the coast guard boat glides nearer its invisible target in the narrow strait separating the Greek island of Lesbos from mainland Turkey. The 36-ft. (11 m) cruiser slows as it draws close to its quarry, and its four Greek sailors gather at the front windshield. One of the men trips the Lambro's floodlights. Bobbing in the open sea 50 feet away are five young men, shielding their eyes from the sudden beam...
...horizon. Further north, where the strait between the two countries narrows to just three miles, traffickers zip immigrants across by Jet Ski. But the usual form of transport is a humble dinghy or decrepit motorboat crammed past capacity, and destined to be abandoned after the crossing - if the boat and its passengers make it. In October, in separate incidents, Greek and Turkish authorities recovered 18 bodies; the E.U. estimates that 3,000 or more people die annually attempting to slip into Europe by sea. Before setting out on the patrol I accompanied, one of the Greek sailors shakes his head...
...Pulling out his 30-day expulsion order, written in Greek, he mulls over his options. He wants to leave Greece for the Netherlands as quickly as possible, but he doesn't know how: plane, train, boat. "I don't know, but it will have to be illegal," he says, his eyes dropping grimly as he folds the order and wedges it back in the front pocket of the bleached gray jeans he has worn all the way from Kandahar...
...them a lot of credit for their performance this weekend,” captain Jon Garrity said. The sophomore tandem of skipper Alan Palmer and crew Stokes sailed in the A division, placing 11th overall. Meanwhile, skipper Garrity led the way for Harvard in the B division, pacing the boat to a first-place finish. Himler was his crew for the first four races, with Stokes stepping in for the regatta’s final race. Despite the unpredictable conditions—Sunday brought cold rain, extreme wind, and even snow—it was Garrity’s leadership...
...blue-eyed leader retains that grip on Turks' imagination well beyond their school days. His portrait graces every office, classroom, boat, bus and building in the country. The sleepiest of Anatolian towns features an Atatürk statue in its square. On Tuesday morning at 9:05 a.m., as sirens wailed, the entire nation came to a halt to mark the minute of his death...