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...This year alone, pirates based in Somalia, where any semblance of a functioning state broke down years ago, are thought to have attacked more than 90 ships. In a recent 48-hour period, they apprehended vessels from Greece, Thailand and Hong Kong, and on Nov. 15 took the biggest prize of all, the Saudi supertanker Sirius Star, laden with an estimated $100 million in crude...
University President Drew G. Faust’s book on the Civil War—one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s housekeeper Sally Hemings at the award ceremony in New York last night...
...prize went to Annette Gordon-Reid’s work “The Hemingses of Monticello,” which profiled Sally Hemings’ family, which had several ties to the Jeffersons, according to Gordon-Reid. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
Aside from Gordon-Reid, the winners of the night were Judy Blundell, who claimed the prize for young people’s literature; Peter Matthieson, whose book “Shadow Country” won in the fiction category, and Mark Doty, who won the award for poetry...
...angry, I considered swiping it or even a prop from another show taped in the studio—a law book belonging to Judge Judy, perhaps. My teammates convinced me to remain within the law, at least until the studio sent us our prize money for coming in a respectable second. I let my anger subside and left without committing petty theft. That would have so been below me. So average...