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Harvard Law School student Clara J. K. Long and her Boston-based film crew won a new international media award for their documentary series “Border Stories,” which strives to show the “human face” of the U.S.-Mexico border region. The team won the Public Prize—one of the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards—which the media development organization Internews created to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Long said that a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border and across...
...have attacked over 100 ships off the coast of Africa. Most notably, they have held a Saudi tanker with over 100 million dollars in oil and a Ukrainian ship full of Soviet-era tanks (the destination of which remains unknown). According to CNN, as of December 5, almost 300 crew in 14 vessels adrift at sea remained hostage to Somali pirates. Clearly, these guys are not your regular Hollywood folk. In the coming days, the Bush administration will propose a resolution in the United Nations (UN) that would allow foreign forces to follow pirates into mainland Africa and fight them...
...Islamist militia that controls much of the country and elements of the government are inclined to extort a share of the ransom payments - tens of millions of dollars this year alone - whenever possible. The International Maritime Board's Piracy Reporting Center says 14 ships and between 250 and 300 crew members remain in captivity along the Somali coast...
Nicholas Daniloff (ND): It certainly satisfied and stimulated my intellectual curiosity. I lived in Holworthy Hall, Suite 16, which was always a subject of some joke—Sweet 16. And I went out for crew as well; so the intellectual pursuits and the crew were very big in my life...
...past several months, luxury businesses have been battening down to cope with a sinking economy. As the consumer pulls back on discretionary spending, luxury executives and retailers are scrambling to redefine themselves. Tiffany & Co. is opening smaller stores. J. Crew has set up shop in a former Tribeca bar and propped it with real liquor bottles along with the bow ties. Times may be tough, but things of great beauty?objects, food, buildings, places, clothing, jewelry?will never lose their appeal. There is a widely accepted theory that in moments of real political, social or economic stress, lipstick sales spike...