Word: escapee
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It was into this porous poorly regulated Muslim heartland that Dulmatin and Umar Patek and their families fled by boat from Indonesia and Malaysia in early 2003. Their escape was revealed after Dulmatin's wife, Haja Oemar "Istie" Sovie and the couple's children, were captured on Jolo Island in...
Playing a considerably more relaxed game after halftime, the Crimson was lucky to escape in the shortened match—despite likely being the stronger team. A typical polo match is divided into six, seven-and-a-half minute chukkers, or periods, with three minute breaks—five at...
On a recent humid afternoon, Jack "Whitey" Knupp stood atop Grand Tower's levee, surveying the Mississippi. The portly 73-year-old with ruddy cheeks and a shock of silver hair spent much of his life steering barges along the river. Indeed, for years, the river produced the drama in...
This is a bad road to travel. Abraham Lincoln described the presidency as an office that would drive a man to his knees. We should not be making it harder for Presidents to find solace. And their preachers should be able to mount the pulpit and speak from the heart...
In July 2002, the office of the Pentagon's former top lawyer, William "Jim" Haynes, began to examine a program that taught U.S. military personnel how to survive interrogation methods used by dictatorships such as North Korea and the former Soviet Union. The program, know as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance...