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...parties searched the whaling vessel's holds for any available combustibles, including whale products, pitch, tar, and turpentine. These they spread throughout the vessels. Bulkheads, the upright walls compartmentalizing each vessel were torn down and piled in cabins and forecastles; the bulkheads' destruction at once created fuel and improved draft for the fire to come. The Confederates then opened all the hatches and cut the rigging. With no wind, the sails hung limp and free. Finally, before leaving, the prizes parties took fires from each of the eight ship's galley stoves and dispersed flames throughout the main decks...
...question of who is a terrorist may be answered differently in Iraq and in Washington. Many Iraqi politicians have distinguished between terrorism (attacks targeting Iraqi civilians) and resistance (attacks against the U.S. and allied armies). A paragraph explicitly stating that distinction had reportedly been included in the original draft of Maliki's plan, and was deleted in the final hours of negotiation before it was announced.? Also excised, according to various reports, was a written invitation for "resistance" groups to join a national dialogue. The statement now calls more vaguely for "credible national dialogue" dealing with all the country...
...also checks to make sure the loop has been closed. "People as a matter of course say, 'I better make certain Blake knows that I've finished that,'" Rove says. "The President and he think alike so much that he can literally go through and underline a new draft of the President's speech to hit the emphasis points in the way that the President would...
...sport in which Jorg Nowitzki played for the West German national team. Or toiled in his family's housepainting business. But a member of West Germany's 1972 Olympic basketball team, Holger Geschwindner, discovered the gangly teen in Wurzburg and groomed his raw talent into the first-round draft pick of the Mavericks...
...replace those in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.After nearly a year without significant activity on the ground in Allston, the University announced the architects and locations of the first new buildings in February—only four days before Summers’ resignation. The University is now set to submit a draft of its new Institutional Master Plan to the City of Boston within the calendar year, outlining its intentions for the next half century.“President Summers’ departure should not disrupt the process in any significant way,” writes Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis...