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October is a special month for terrorism, declared Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono in August. "Terrorist cells are still active. They are still hiding, recruiting, networking, trying to find new funding sources and even planning." As if on schedule, on Oct. 1 suicide bombers struck Indonesia's island of Bali, just 11 days shy of the third anniversary of another set of blasts that took 202 lives on the island. At 7:30 p.m. on a crowded Saturday, the popular tourist town of Kuta, the target of the 2002 attacks, was rocked by an explosion. A multistory restaurant was gutted. Simultaneously...
...fragile ecosystems of the coastal marshes, far from the urban meltdowns, communities weren't just inflamed, they were annihilated. In Cameron Parish, La., along the border with Texas, Rita washed towns like Creole, Oak Grove and Grand Chenier into the sea. In neighboring Vermilion Parish, the residents of Pecan Island returned to find little more than a mile-wide debris field choked with dead marsh grasses...
...volume is rich with grainy photos of dancers rehearsing under poor conditions, swathed in tropical shadows, exposing strong body language and facial expressions that are at once haunting and joyful, often within the same frame."Wow, wow, wow!" says Garcetti with a smile, recalling the first day on the island when he and his wife encountered an energetic Afro-Cuban dance troupe marching down a Havana street to promote a performance. "I saw their spirit, their joy, and once the door was open, these dancers opened their hearts...
Olsen believes Point is an exception, and despite the gift bags, he's right. The weekend retreat was packed with anodyne activities such as a boat ride to twee Mackinac Island. Lancaster spends an inordinate amount of energy pairing each scholar with a career-appropriate mentor. The mentors are accomplished and tend to be wealthy--a hedge-fund manager, a university president, movie people--and all undergo background checks...
That next game, a non-conference match-up with Rhode Island at Ohiri Field, should get the Crimson ready for its second league game of the season this Saturday night in Ithaca, against Cornell...