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...endured. So when a friend from my youth told me she was shipping out on a cargo boat and invited me to join her, I leapt at the chance. Davien, a native Manhattanite, was taking a sabbatical from a successful career in the entertainment industry to launch a new chapter of her life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where I now live, and together we sailed westward...
...Part of the book was soliciting questions. Most people ended up looking for different perspectives on their specific topics,” he said. “We also wrote the intro to each chapter, with our spin on the specific topic...
...empire” to its former glory. Ferguson, the Herzog professor of financial history at the NYU’s Stern School of Business and a senior research fellow at Jesus College in Oxford University, offers a reinterpretation of what is commonly seen as a dark chapter in British history. In the last half-century, historians have focused on the racism, violence and exploitation that lay at the empire’s heart and helped Britain to build a colonial network encompassing nearly a quarter of the world’s population...
...another chapter in the political struggle over Harvard’s attempt to purchase 90 acres of industrial Boston land, an environmental review agency informed the would-be seller last week that they intend to review the sale and could even stop it completely...
...something to make sure this popular boycott doesn't become a durable sentiment." So Guigal got on the tgv to Paris last week to meet with representatives from all of France's wine-growing regions, to talk about what can be done to turn the page on this nasty chapter in Franco-American relations. Louis-Fabrice Latour, whose family has exported Burgundy to America since the U.S. Civil War, shared his concerns. "Sales to the States fell between 20% and 30% in March," he says. "It's not just the boycott; we know the dollar's low and people have...