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...thrill ride can range from navigating among the financial sharks in New York City to tracking down the biological secrets of binobo chimps in the darkest rain forest. For Karin J. Alexander ‘02, a social studies concentrator in Lowell House, adventure was getting attacked by a lion in her homeland, Zimbabwe...
...turn to see a young lion, not more than hip height from the ground-stalking me...I’m vaguely panicked at this point,” says Karin Jane Alexander `02, who was conducting thesis research this summer. Karin and her fiance, Adam, were invited to tea with a distant relative who runs a wildlife orphanage outside of Bulawayo, a large city in the south of the country. Karin stepped out of the car to open the gate, and Adam continued driving up a long driveway. Karin closed the gate behind her, began to wander through a garden...
Knowing that if she ran, the lion would think she were prey, she walked quickly, wishing the house were closer than 500 meters away. The lion picked up speed and growled in a “low guttural manner.” “Next thing I know, I’m on the floor, face down-with something patting my head quite vigorously,” says Karin. Meanwhile, Adam and her relative watched with amusement from the comfort of the house. Adam stayed calm once the relative (who in the past was nearly eaten...
Karin was quickly extracted from beneath the lion, named Mano, who joined them for tea. According to Karin, Mano “subsequently stayed close to me throughout tea, lying at my feet like a cuddly bear.” Karin cautions us never to run in the sight of lions. Will do. If she has another encounter with a feline friend, Karin will try to remain still. Karin has one more comment: “It would have been great of someone to alert us to the presence of the lion in the garden.” We?...
Black mourning banners still wave across the steep gorges, pockmarked villages and invisible redoubts that make up the thin sliver of Afghanistan not conquered by the Taliban. They honor the "Lion of Panjshir," Ahmed Shah Massoud, revered commander of the anti-Taliban forces, assassinated two days before the attacks on the U.S. Yet the loose collection of Northern Alliance fighters now calling themselves the United Front, who have doggedly held their narrowing ground for five years, are filled with high hope. American bombs are coming. America will help them win the victory they couldn't win themselves...