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That afternoon, says Mahalingam, a small boat flying a white flag approached. Somali negotiators had sent it to escort the Semlow to a Somali port where it could off-load the rice it was still carrying. Mahalingam radioed the Torgelow, a sister ship that was carrying tea and coffee for Somali traders as well as food and oil for the Semlow. But instead of hearing the captain's voice on the radio, Mahalingam heard a familiar Somali accent. The pirates had their next catch...
...million last week, a year- on-year rise of 18%. CEO Michael O'Leary's course of squeezing nonfuel costs and pushing up passenger volumes will "see [Ryanair] through an awful lot of tough times," says Joe Gill, research director at Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin. Even European flag carriers like Iberia and Air France-KLM, which have faltered as no-frills carriers enticed away their short-haul custom, might see things looking up. IATA says international passenger traffic is up 8.3% this year, and order books at Airbus and Boeing are bulging; the U.S. manufacturer has taken 659 orders this...
...book, by James Bradley and Ron Powers, recounts the ultimately tragic tale of six young U.S. Marines who happened to raise a huge American flag atop Mount Suribachi in the midst of the great battle for Iwo Jima during World War II, of how an Associated Press photographer squeezed off what he thought was a routine shot of them doing so that became an iconic image, of what happened to some of those kids (only three survived the next few days of battle) when they were hustled home to be heedlessly exploited by the U.S. government to raise civilian morale...
...Japanese film derives much of its strength from its claustrophobic confinement to a horrendous time and place. Haggis' work gains its power from its confident range. The screenplay starts with the Americans on the beaches and the protagonists raising the flag. It follows them on their vulgar war-bond tour (they were obliged to re-enact the flag raising on a papier-mâché Suribachi at Soldier Field in Chicago) and then traces their postwar descent into dream-tossed anonymity. You could argue that the Japanese were the lucky ones: their government and religion foreordained their fate, and they...
...supporting our nation’s military. In fact, the day after George Washington was appointed by the Second Continental Congress as America’s first commander-in-chief, he first rallied and organized his army at Cambridge Common—a historic site still marked by a flag and cannon that Harvard students pass daily. Moreover, Harvard quartered George Washington’s troops in Massachusetts Hall, and the current university president’s home, Wadsworth House. Harvard’s affiliation with the military continued until 1969 when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted...