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...starry-eyed idealism for the endeavor to fade. Cairnie had lost the back room of the store to the Harvard Book Store, and torrent of visitors from Harvard had slowed to a trickle. The boards on the floor creaked “like a ship in full sail.” While it was immensely comforting to those who already knew and loved the place, it was an inescapable distraction to newcomers wishing to browse. Some people thought the store should have been closed after Cairnie’s death, while those who had been excluded before came back with...
Most of you will figure this all out by spring semester anyway, but it is important not to try to be a superhero in the fall. Learn your way around Cambridge and Boston, go to a Red Sox game with your roommates and learn to sail on the Charles. If you burn out first semester, you may find it difficult to regain the motivation that got you here...
...They have nine more subs of the Kursk type. Rear-Admiral Yuri Senatski, once the Soviet Navy's chief rescue specialist says it's criminal to let them sail if they don't know what happened to the Kursk...
...years are proving to be curiously trying for his arch-enemies in Florida, precisely because they've placed the question of a post-Castro Cuba, and current U.S. policy, squarely in the spotlight. And whereas many of the older generation had lived much of their lives expecting to simply sail back in and turn back the clock following some cataclysmic event that would see Castro overthrown, the reality is beginning to dawn that the aging strongman is more likely to choose his own retirement date, and that his regime won't necessarily retire along with him. And that's prompted...
...castrate became friends and when Zhu Di launched a coup d'Etat in 1402, Ma was at his side. The prince, who became the Yongle Emperor, awarded Ma an honorific surname Zheng and made him head eunuch. When the Emperor sketched out a plan for Chinese ships to sail to the Indian Ocean, he named his loyal charge to lead the fleet...