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...Dewachi, who has not been back to his homeland since 1998, said he thought there was a “thirst in Iraq right now for exposure to the outside world.” “It’s a place that’s been decapitated from the international community,” he said...
...Little, Brown; 353 pages) begins in 1815 when Riley, on his way back from a routine trading voyage--the proverbial three-hour tour--got lost near the Canary Islands and ran aground in what is now southern Morocco. He and his crew suffered horrifying extremes of exposure, hunger and thirst (King is especially good on the gruesome physiology of dehydration) and were eventually taken as slaves by the Bou Sbaa, a tribe of nomadic Arabs who scratched out a perilous living in the Sahara, trading and feuding and drinking surprising amounts of camel urine. Seen through Riley's eyes...
...next night, Abdi Salan is praying too. Late on the fifth day, the Egyptian boatman sees a ship pass in the distance, dives into the sea and swims frantically for it. He soon drowns. And by the ninth day, people inside the crowded boat begin to die of thirst and exposure, and most of the rest are semiconscious. Abdi Salan lies amid the sprawl of bodies on the boat's floor, thinks about his family and friends in Mogadishu, and prepares to die. When Abdi Salan's boat was discovered on Oct. 19, after 15 days at sea, with...
...worth the slip in my grades and worth not seeing my roommates for days at a time. While I am proud of being a part of what I consider the best college paper in the country, it’s not been the noble pursuit of truth or a thirst for exposing injustice at Harvard that has lured me through our red door every day. It’s that I feel like an essential part of this 130 year-old institution...
...increasing numbers who have doubts about the original mission to Iraq--only 55% approved of it in the TIME/CNN poll, down from 65% at the time of the invasion--Bush's policy was driven by everything from a thirst for oil to a crusading interventionist zeal. And the postwar problems bother them even more: the inability to find weapons of mass destruction, the shifting rationales for the conflict, the continuing bloodshed. All are causing doubts not only about the Administration's credibility but also about its competence. "I don't like the fact that Bush totally failed to finish...