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These days, the battle for the Indian Ocean seems to be all about the dread pirates of Somalia. On Wednesday, the U.S. briefly became a direct player in the ongoing drama, with news that those pirates had hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, and taken 20 American citizens prisoner. But the crew regained control of the ship, except for the captain, who remains on a lifeboat in the hands of the pirates. (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...
...Billions in loans to GM and Chrysler--dubbed a "direct subsidy" by the World Bank...
...corruption of "the culture of contrition" Nancy Gibbs speaks of in her profound essay on apologizing is the direct consequence of the erosion of personal grace in our society [March 30]. Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness--hence the absence of remorse or contrition. When our courts can demand that a defendant pay damages but not insist on any admission of guilt, we further validate as unnecessary any gesture of true contrition. Edmund Nasralla, BOCA RATON...
...basketball may have been in eighth grade, but I have taken midterms on my birthday every year at Harvard. It’s hard to say why I got hooked on THE_REAL_SHAQ. It might have been the random, personal confessions, or the innovative language, or the direct conversations with many of his more than 500,000 followers. When Shaq was at the Alamo a few weeks ago, he said he was going to buy a squirrel tail hat; after one desperate follower begged him not to, Shaq listened, writing...
...Although the more than 80 witnesses and 500 documents submitted to the tribunal offered no smoking-gun evidence of direct orders to the Colina Group death squad by Fujimori, Judge Cesar San Martin concluded there was "no question" that Fujimori had sanctioned the killings during massacres in 1991 and '92 as well as the '92 kidnappings of journalist Gustavo Goritti and businessman Samuel Dyer. "There is never a written order to forcibly disappear and kill someone," says Cromwell Castillo, whose son Ernesto Paez was killed in 1990. "[But] the circumstances have demonstrated that Fujimori not only knew but sanctioned...