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They even had a festive, Thanksgiving-themed centerpiece, consisting of "The Gourd," a pumpkin, cloves of garlic, squash, pears, and candles. At 3 p.m., it was time to eat. "We didn't say a prayer or anything; we just started with `Let's Eat,'" Kessler said...
Dawn. As the red sun edges over the horizon, a crowd of frail bodies gathers in the chill morning air outside the UNICEF feeding center in Bardera, a small town in southern Somalia. Each person clutches an aluminum pot or gourd to be filled, they hope, with a meal of brown gruel before the day is over. For four weeks now they have been been arriving at the rate of 150 to 200 a day from villages as far as 125 miles away, camping overnight in abandoned huts and making their way to the center in the predawn hours through...
...Shadows begin to lengthen across the courtyard as one last child, a small cross-eyed boy with no parents to wash the red dust out of his matted hair, has his gourd filled and wanders distractedly out the gate. Moments later the iron doors swing shut...
...that stalk the nights of the superstitious. Pierre's movement stirs up the rats nesting in the thatched roof, as well as his wife Annaise and three young daughters. Annaise lights a fire with a few scarce twigs, then boils coffee with the last drops of water from a gourd and sweetens it with a piece of sugarcane. Her daughter Melina, 6, places the gourd on her head and begins a morning-long walk to a well. Mercius, meanwhile, picks up his wooden hoe, balances it on his shoulder and scuttles down the mountainside to till a field of millet...
...thrilled out of my gourd," said ThomasWinship '42, former editor of The Boston Globe...