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...Tintin children's comic books are not where you would expect to find drug dealers cast in a favorable light. But in Cigars of the Pharaoh, our cowlicked protagonist owes his life to a passing sea captain, who rescues him and his faithful fox terrier Snowy from the Red Sea, into which they have been thrown overboard. That captain was based on the real-life French adventurer, hashish smuggler and sometime opium grower Henry de Monfreid - and the recent reissue of De Monfreid's beguiling 1933 memoir Hashish: A Smuggler's Tale is a cause for rejoicing among all those...
...market for hashish in Egypt, and De Monfreid resolves to head for Greece - where the "bringer of dreams" was cultivated and packaged for sale - then grease some palms and have 1,300 lbs. (600 kg) shipped to Djibouti, whence he'd ferry the hashish in his dhow up the Red Sea to Suez. Thus was a drug smuggler born...
...Chinese trepang trader on a deserted island; a metrosexual polyglot butler; a Bedouin shouldering a Remington; a priest who manufactures hashish; and a hashish distributor who operates from an undertaker's office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...
...serve them in library-appropriate disguises. Widener Russian 2 oz. vodka 1 oz. coffee liqueur 3 oz. cream or milk Serve in a Peet’s coffee cup and pretend that it’s hot. Sip slowly. Lamontal Breakdown 2 oz. vodka 1 can sugar-free Red Bull Serve in another empty Red Bull can and nobody will know the difference. Cabot Explosion 1 oz. rum 1 oz. coconut rum 5 oz. pineapple juice Serve in a Greenhouse Café smoothie cup and sip from a straw. Hella Hilles 2. oz vodka 6 oz. dining hall lemonade Pour...
...This is an action meeting. We know atrocities are being committed,” Mugane said. “Lives are being devastated.” Among the plans discussed was a benefit concert with Kenyan musicians, the proceeds of which will go to the Kenya Red Cross. Karimi J. Gituma, a fifth-year Kenyan student at Harvard Medical School who is organizing the event, said her goal is to raise awareness at Harvard and in the greater Boston community. In the meantime, Harvard Kenyans, an informal social network for Kenyans and East Africans at Harvard and MIT, has established...