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...ship??Arbella carried John Winthrop to the New World, facilitating the establishment of what would become this glorious commonwealth. On Friday, the annual Arbella Ball will carry residents of John Winthrop House to levels of glorious revelry that only formals week can facilitate. The Ball will once again feature a live band in the Gore Courtyard as well as chocolate fountains and dancing...
...time. The film begins with the arrival of Carl (Tom Sturridge), who has been sent by his mother to the boat after being expelled from school, in the hopes that he may spend more time with his godfather, Quentin (Nighy), Radio Rock’s nutty station manager. The ship??s eclectic personalities—including The Count (Hoffman) and Dr. Dave (Nick Frost)—have popular consensus on their side, but the boat is under legislative siege from the government. Their fiercest opponent is Minister Alistair Dormandy (Branagh), who is committed to shutting down...
...open sea, a helicopter approaches a cargo ship of Eastern European origin. Quietly, the chopper disgorges a team of elite commandos, arguably the best in the world, who quickly subdue the crew and remove weapons unlisted on the ship??s manifest. This may be familiar as the opening mission of a widely popular modern combat video game, featuring Britain’s elite Special Air Service. Yet this scene may have actually happened recently —with Israeli troops...
...claimed masked men speaking accented English subdued, but did not harm, the crew; then the ship simply vanished. Russia has claimed, once the ship was found off West Africa, that there was no suspicious cargo on board besides the intended logs. Yet experts believe there was more to the ship??s hijacking than pirates seeking ransom...
...illicitly carrying powerful Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. Russia has denied this assertion, but its position seems fishy. Whether Russia was coerced into taking back the missiles and covering the situation up or the missiles were forcibly removed, they would not be reported in the inventory following the ship??s recovery. Furthermore, the first whistleblower on the ship??s secret cargo, Mikhail Voitenko, a maritime expert and editor of the Russian maritime journal “Sovfracht,” has been fired and induced to flee to Istanbul after various threats. Voitenko?...