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...destroy it? Twain seems to have thought so. Indeed, his underappreciated short story A Trial may be viewed as a justification for the Civil War. A Trial tells of a ship's captain who dotes on his first mate, a black man. The ship docks at an island, where Bill Noakes, the self-proclaimed toughest man on the island, charges on board and demands to fight the captain, who promptly dumps him into the water. The next night, the same thing occurs. A week later, evidently enraged by his humiliation, Noakes murders the captain's beloved mate. The captain storms...
Wright-Swadel came to Cambridge in 1995, after three years at the helm of Dartmouth's office of career services. According to the Duke release, he has also worked in career services at the University of Rhode Island, the State University College of New Paltz in New York, and the University of Maine...
...every right to feel frustrated. Philippine police say the techniques used to assemble and detonate the bomb came from another group of terrorists whom authorities have been hunting for nearly six years: the Bali bombers who got away. Since killing 202 people in two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali in 2002, the fugitives are believed to have murdered and maimed scores of innocents in new bombings. Investigators in Indonesia and the Philippines say they export their skills to other countries and terror groups and recruit more disciples for suicide attacks, all the while moving across borders, marrying, fathering...
...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...
...Patikul, on Jolo island, General Juancho Sabban, who heads the country's anti-terrorism task force, gives a guided tour of a former Abu Sayyaf base close to one of his forward operating bases. "See how difficult it is to see the bunkers," he says, striding nimbly through the chest-high grass that covers the hillside. Hidden in the grass are the 2-m-deep spider holes from which Abu Sayyaf guerrillas popped up to kill six of his men during a 2006 firefight...