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...some point or another, boredom or egotism leads students to type their names into the Google search engine. Typically, such a search turns up a body of fascinating information: high school swim-meet times, math tournament statistics and the like. However, Aidin E.W. Carey ’07 recently Google-d her name only to come across something quite a bit scarier...
...Kapama private game reserve near Kruger National Park, five hours north of Johannesburg. The Kapama Lodge, one of only two in the park, charges $370 per person per night for accommodation, and $133 for a ride on a canvas-covered saddle. Good food when you stop, the chance to swim with elephants and lavish rooms make for a high-end ride. For the ultimate experience, stay at the park's five-star Camp Jubalani ($880 per person per night). All elephant safaris here are free and include a four-hour trek, with a stop for a bush picnic as well...
...room begins to fill and the music gets louder, Valle’s roommate Tom J. Crahan ’04 sashays down the stairs clad only in a Speedo and glasses. FM is slightly unprepared. Crahan, unwilling to comment but offering his status on the swim team as an excuse, later pulled on a regular bathing suit, though he flashed the revealing garment underneath an uncomfortable number of times throughout the evening...
...aware of Harry Elkins Widener’s whole sorry story, but also of the artist who painted the murals inside Widener Library (Sargent), of the reason the third, poignant condition Harry’s mother laid down for the construction of the library (all students must take a swim test to graduate) has been cancelled (the Disabilities Act). This information is only being shared in case the reader, too, is subjected to a terrorizing pop quiz while running to class. Before college, none of us ever believed they had a particularly trustworthy face, but one starts to think...
...face a blank silhouette, was the jack of spades, No. 9 on the list. Two days later, an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship located Mohammed's walkie-talkie as he sat in a car about 100 yards from where I had met him. "It was his one hobby, to swim," Mohammed's brother later told me. "His fate was to die by the sea." The helicopter launched at least three Hellfire missiles as the four men in the car tried to flee. Afterward, there was little of Mohammed to bury besides his head. His real name, I learned, was Ahmed Ishtawi...