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...Ma Soba Express, a Harvard Square fast food restaurant serving pan-Asian cuisine, permanently closed its doors Wednesday after seven years of operation...
...often lashed by the elements. He lost many ships in raging tempests - some were reefed against the African shoreline and the survivors may have set up colonies there - and hundreds of men succumbed to disease. Zheng He, too, died on his final, seventh voyage and was buried at sea. Ma Huan, a translator on several of Zheng He's expeditions, recalls how Saint Elmo's fire once blazed atop the mast of the treasure ship, prompting a shaken Zheng He to offer more lavish sacrifices to Tianfei...
...Later, on the island of Madura, a short ferry ride from Surabaya - where Zheng He would have anchored his boats during his visits - I meet Ma'ruf. At 27, married at 15 to a 13-year-old girl, he still has a boyish face and a loose-limbed manner. He was born and raised on Madura but, unemployed, unmoved by the prospect of spending his life in the tobacco fields, he left for Sampit in Borneo several years ago and found work as a driver. Last February, long simmering tensions between the Madurese and the native Dayaks erupted. The Dayaks...
...Upwards of 100,000 Madurese left central Kalimantan. Ma'ruf is unemployed again, living with relatives on a wooded back road in the town of Rahayu outside Sampang. His wife and children are staying with her sister in a neighboring town. She has a recurring dream that the house is on fire and they have to get out. Ma'ruf doesn't have the nightmares, but he hasn't the faintest clue why it all happened. "I don't know," he says. "I don't feel anything at all right now. I just want to keep living...
...Crimson freshman heavyweight boat earned its place on the Thames River by winning the crown at Eastern Sprints with a time of 5:35.98, a new freshman course record on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, MA. Harvard then closed out its season in the U.S. with a solid sweep over Yale in the Harvard-Yale regatta on June 3. With an amazing season under their belts, the freshmen were ready to travel over the Atlantic to tackle international foes in the Temple Challenge...