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Cook’s flaming temper didn’t improve the situation. The captain took a possessive attitude toward the rank farm animals stowed on board. At Moorea in the Pacific, Cook became furious after two goats were stolen, rampaging through a village and burning down 200 huts. Cook’s explosive nature led to a fatal showdown with the Hawaiian people, and Cook was hacked apart for trying to kidnap the king. The crew later recovered “a horrifying package of burnt bones, thighs, calves, skull with one ear attached, arms and hands...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...swept to national power in 1998, promising economic reforms without social hardship. But unemployment has risen dramatically, and the government has cut unemployment benefits, even as it cut taxes for corporations. That has angered unions and spd rank and file, who've vented their frustrations in a string of recent state elections. The spd lost in Saxony-Anhalt in 2002 and in Lower Saxony - Schröder's home state - in 2003. In April, it was forced into a grand coalition with the cdu in Schleswig-Holstein. The state polls are key to Germany's federal system because the states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble In The Heartland | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

Cook’s flaming temper didn’t improve the situation. The captain took a possessive attitude toward the rank farm animals stowed on board. At Moorea in the Pacific, Cook became furious after two goats were stolen, rampaging through a village and burning down 200 huts. Cook’s explosive nature led to a fatal showdown with the Hawaiian people, and Cook was hacked apart for trying to kidnap the king. The crew later recovered “a horrifying package of burnt bones, thighs, calves, skull with one ear attached, arms and hands...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...some observers, the list of 20 films in competition this year for the Palme d'Or - the Golden Palm, Cannes' top prize - may represent the second rank of world directors. The names Michael Haneke and Hiner Saleem, Hou Hsaio-hsien and Wang Xiaoshuai, the Dardenne brothers and the Larrieu brothers, may not light up the marquee in your movie awareness. The prospect a new Lars von Trier (Manderlay, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe and Danny Glover) may make you squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Diary: Episode LVIII: A New Hope | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

...city council ballot, however, would continue to be based on a proportional representation scheme, which allows voters to rank a number of candidates for the council...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mayoral Election Debated | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

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