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Three stories dovetail in this small book. One of them involves the ordeal of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor on a Colombian destroyer. He was swept overboard and into the Caribbean, along with seven other crew members, on Feb. 28, 1955, and endured ten days in a life raft before swimming ashore to what would become a hero's welcome. Once the cheering had died down, Velasco offered to sell his account to El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota. A young reporter named Gabriel Garcia Marquez spent some 120 hours interviewing the survivor and shaping his recollections into a first...
...judge hearing the Bhopal case, John Keenan of the federal district court of New York, has expressed skepticism about the settlement, and Carbide has opened new negotiations with the Indian government. Whatever the outcome, Union Carbide Chairman Warren M. Anderson, 64, will soon put the Bhopal ordeal behind him. Last week the company named Robert D. Kennedy, 53, the president of Carbide's chemicals and plastics division, as Anderson's successor. Anderson, who had been planning to retire just before the Bhopal tragedy struck, will step down in November...
...book by an anonymous author who describes how she was pulled into a nine-and-a-half-week long relationship with a man who dominated her body and mind. She finally realizes the perverseness and horror of the relationship and escapes to write a published account of the whole ordeal...
...times the number originally reported. The riots' apparent cause: discontent of police conscripts, angry over poor pay and living conditions, who were soon joined by Fundamentalist agitators. The mutiny was quickly put down. In the short term, the government of President Hosni Mubarak was not seriously damaged by the ordeal. But with the country's economy a shambles, any new government austerity measures could provoke another explosion of rioting by the urban poor that not even the disciplined and professional Egyptian army would be able to contain...
Before continuing, a word or two on reading period from a student's perspective seems appropriate. During reading period, time begins to lose meaning. Monday is no different from any other day of the week. The dining halls clutter up with students who stretch the ordeal of Harvard food into hours because they do not want to trudge off to the library again. As people sacrifice more and more of their extra-curricular energies to study for finals, the student population adopts a perturbing distortion of life which almost suffocates the individual. The quality of life and spirits of students...