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...that later helped him escape. Stansell also tries to keep the hostages' spirits up. "Keith even learned how to tell jokes in Spanish," he recalls. Like Stansell, Gonsalves and Howes have children in the U.S. Howes, from Massachusetts, has eased his depression by adopting a stray dog. Gonsalves, of Connecticut, spends his days lifting makeshift weights and reading a Spanish Bible. The men cannot receive letters but do hear news of their families broadcast on Colombian radio...
...Harvard’s co-ed squad also spent the weekend on the Connecticut coast, recording a third-place finish in the Thompson Trophy in New London...
...qualify for the Eastern Championships. To do that, Harvard had to do something it hadn’t done all year—defeat either Hartwick or Brown to get into the final.The Crimson dropped two matches to Hartwick and Brown consecutively before rebounding to capture third place against Connecticut College. Harvard now awaits a committee decision to see if its season warrants one of the last two at-large bids to the Eastern Championships. “There are three or four teams gunning for [the last at large spots], so we’re just hoping the committee...
...nominee, fall in love with the idea. What's more, it works. Cap and trade was used in the 1990s to limit sulfur dioxide emissions and help tame acid rain. The most promising piece of green legislation now on Capitol Hill, co-sponsored by independent Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia, is a cap-and-trade proposal. The bill is popular, but that doesn't mean it's going to pass. For some fence sitters, the chief obstacle isn't ideology--it's geology...
...immigration and deportation in post-9/11 America. McCarthy, however, chooses to present these issues through the personal stories of people who would never have met had it not been for unlikely circumstances. “The Visitor” charts the story of Walter Vale, a professor at Connecticut College, who is dissatisfied with his work and his life. One weekend he discovers that his neglected apartment in New York City has been taken over by two illegal immigrants: Tarek, a Syrian musician, and his Senegalese wife Zainab. After an initially awkward meeting, Vale warms to the couple...