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...health-care aide, so she can't avoid the area, as some now do. Instead, she tries to guess the shooter's patterns. "I try to stay beside a semi. If I'm heading east, I stay to the left of the truck. If I'm heading west, I stay on the right," she says...
...already reached Europe. But the smuggler's one-month delay turns into two. Finally, in the first week of June, he gets the good word and sets out on a city bus at twilight for a rendezvous on the edge of town. Doubts run through his mind: Will the truck be there? Will it be able to evade the Sudanese security forces? Is the Sahara as unforgiving as they say? When he arrives around 8 p.m., with 24 other Somalis, there is good news and bad. Yes, they will be leaving tonight for the Libyan border, but they will...
...third day of a trip that was supposed to last two days, the Somalis feel the vehicle slowing down, and then see smoke pouring from under the hood. The Sudanese smugglers stop and splash water onto the engine and the truck coughs back to life. The frightening ritual bath is repeated over the next few days. But when the truck rolls to a stop on the seventh day, something more serious is wrong. This time, the bath doesn't work. The drivers are nervous as they try to get the motor turning again. No luck. Getting stuck out here means...
...novice New York City driver, to host the tailgate and I could have spent a Crimson-free day basking in the sun and flitting around the final club tailgates with my roommates. Instead, I mostly stayed put at (and on) The Crimson’s 14-foot truck, helping tap the kegs and hugging the Crimson alums that came...
Anne K. Kofol ’04, a history and literature concentrator living in Mather House, is a News Executive Editor of The Harvard Crimson. She drives a mean rental truck...