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...France has made battling the Somali pirates a major priority of its forces in the region. (France maintains a permanent military base in nearby Djibouti.) The French and NATO vessels will patrol the waters off Somalia under a U.N. mandate to escort commercial ships and those carrying humanitarian supplies to drought-stricken areas, and to scour the area for pirates before they strike. Last April, French forces had stormed the luxury cruiser Le Ponant to rescue 30 vacationers and crew members taken hostage by Somali pirates. Six of those pirates, plus six others captured after another French hostage intervention...
...Infidelity Survey, it's hard to track, but experts warn it becomes more likely under stress. "Study after study shows that men deal with stress through escapism and women deal with it by talking," says Jill Brooke, a divorce expert who helps run Firstwivesworld.com "Online porn, massage parlors and escort services are cheaper and quicker than therapy, especially if you lost your health insurance." Often, since the men are operating under stress, they get caught. And often their wives can't bring themselves to take the Silda Spitzer--Elizabeth Edwards high road...
...Spiro was surprised to discover a large, wasted stranger stumbling through her room. After numerous exchanges (name calling on the rando’s part and “please get out of my room” from Spiro), she finally convinced him to leave only by agreeing to escort him back to the Belltower, still sporting her pyjamas...
...Felicity said, disappointed.“Neverthelessima,” said Ollie, “no woman—particularimente a woman asa pretty as you—should hava to witness such a thing. I, signora, am the Prince Filippo Fumagalli. May I escort you outside, signiora?”Felicity allowed Ollie to take her arm. She gazed for a moment at the railroad track and sighed deeply. “What mighta the matter be?” Ollie said.Felicity sighed again. “My story is hardly unique...
...becoming victims of crime, and students themselves should be taking further precautions to prevent that from happening. The university has worked to accommodate our 24-hour lifestyles, constructing a system of blue light alarm systems and instituting programs such as the Harvard shuttle service and the Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP). Yet even in the face of the recent increase in crime, many of these services continue to be underutilized by students, who instead continue to put themselves unnecessarily at risk. Obviously, being a target of a crime has some degree of randomness to it, and no one deserves...