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...traveled to Mogadishu to look for an education. But all public education had collapsed with the last functioning government in 1991, leaving private school the only option. And Said Ali, like most of his generation, was unable to afford the fees. Instead, he found a job as a porter, and then graduated to selling shirts and kikoi wraps by the side of the road. In time, he was given a job inside a clothes store in Bakara Market, where he earned about 10,000 Somali shillings (80 cents) a day. But often he would be forced to hand over...
...Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First Aid and an entire section on criminal law. Testifying to the tenacity and endurance of Somalia's entrepreneurs, Hirsie says, books on business...
...with his luggage but not him. "That's how terrorists blow up planes," he notes, asking not to be identified. "But [the airline] didn't even seem to care." Gugi Saputra, commercial director for Adam Air, says the airline would have tried to contact the passenger and that a porter may have removed the wrong bags by mistake. "We would never take off without a passenger who has checked in his bags," he says. On the subject of the Sulawesi crash, Saputra maintains that the jury is still out: "We always put safety first and we cannot blame safety problems...
...most accounts, Negroponte did a creditable job as DNI, rapidly building the organization's staff to more than 1,000 as he helped to push out former CIA boss Porter Goss, replacing him with Negroponte's own deputy, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden. But Negroponte was long rumored to be impatient with the intelligence job, and eager to return to his career as a diplomat. A likely replacement for Negroponte is retired Adm. Mike McConnell, who served as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992 to 1996 and is currently a senior vice president at the consulting firm...
...Type As, Harvard’s only non-boy punk band, with fellow radio compers Amy R. Klein ’07, the founder of the band, and Irene S. Choi ’07. They were joined by Tessa B. Johung ’07 and Karima M. Porter ’07. “Not being able to find strong, really well-recognized females in the music industry as role models made me want to make music and art myself,” Hufstedler says. “I just basically want to convey the message that...