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...Having experienced poverty as a child and turned yourself into a wealthy man, would you say you're someone who'll never lose empathy for the poor or someone who thinks success is within anyone's reach? Well, I'd like to think more the former than the latter. But you have to go back and ask, how was that change possible in my life? And the answer is that I was blessed to have a mother who understood that education was a liberator and that you get out of life what you put into...
...credit side of the ledger, that's about it. Piracy is nasty, brutish--and old. As long as richly laden ships have sailed within reach of dirt-poor land, piracy has been part of our heritage. That has long been true in the Mediterranean, the South China Sea, the Caribbean--and is true now in the waters off the Horn of Africa. 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...
...this goal, the humble All-Star deflects too much individual attention.“The drive is to win a national title, and I have the resources here at Harvard to do that,” Caputo explains. “More importantly, though, I want the team to reach its potential, and I think we’re on our way.”It may not be rare for athletes to speak of a “team first” mentality, but in a format that hinges on one-on-one battles, Weiss recognizes the value...
...Behind closed doors, the team is plenty angry that is missed out on continuing to the next round of tournament play, especially when doing so seemed within such easy reach. But at last week’s press conference, you wouldn’t know...
...counts. One, the pirates have typically taken vessels within 200 miles of shore, but the supertanker was taken 450 miles off the Somali coast. International navies have been protecting a narrow corridor farther north toward the Gulf of Aden, but this seizure demonstrates the pirates' dramatically expanded reach. Two, the buccaneers have never taken over an oil supertanker, capable of carrying 2 million barrels of oil. It is the biggest ship ever seized by the pirates. U.S. Navy officers say the ship appears to be heading toward the Somali port of Eyl, a harbor where the pirates often park their...