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...plane carrying three U.S. military contractors crash-landed in rebel territory in southern Colombia. The survivors - Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes - were taken hostage by fierce Marxist guerrillas the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, better known by the Spanish acronym FARC. The initial rescue operation fell apart. Instead of finding the contractors, two companies of Colombian soldiers stumbled upon a buried rebel cache of $20 million, then deserted and splurged their newfound fortune on booze, sex and flat-screen televisions. The forgotten hostages spent the next five years in captivity. But with the help of billions of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hostage Rescue in the Colombian Jungle | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

Russi began scolding the hostages. If they didn't want to cooperate, they could stay on the ground for all he cared. The problem was that most of the prisoners seemed prepared to do just that. As the argument grew louder, the fake Australian delegate noticed Keith, Marc, and Tom off to one side. Maybe the gringos would listen to reason. He pleaded with the Americans to collaborate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hostage Rescue in the Colombian Jungle | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...plane carrying three U.S. military contractors crash-landed in rebel territory in southern Colombia. The survivors - Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes - were taken hostage by fierce Marxist guerrillas the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, better known by the Spanish acronym FARC. It would take five years, and the help of billions of dollars in U.S. aid, before commandos of the Colombian Army were able to launch a daring, Mission: Impossible-style sting operation in a bid to save the hostages. Colombian planners of the July 2008 operation were probably keen to avoid the fate of the earliest rescue attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Colombia, A Bungled First Rescue Attempt | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...wild monkey? Either way, the improvised Amazon chow was playing havoc with Walter Suárez's innards. Suárez was part of a contingent of 147 Colombian soldiers punching through the snarled jungle foliage as part of a massive operation to encircle the guerrillas holding Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves, and Tom Howes. But as the troops marched deeper into the wild, they began running out of supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Colombia, A Bungled First Rescue Attempt | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...appreciate that many other universities do not attract graduation speakers of nearly the same prominence as Harvard does, and we therefore should not take Souter’s appearance for granted. Last year’s commencement speakers at other Cambridge and Boston-area colleges included Arthur creator Marc Brown at Lesley College, former Wellesley College President Diana Chapman Walsh at Cambridge College, and actor Blair Underwood—who spent a week at Harvard as an Office for the Arts artist in residence earlier this year—at Emerson College. These speakers are undoubtedly worthy choices, but they...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Judgment Day | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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