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...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 13 corpses and 15 survivors aboard and an unknown number lost along the way, the story threw Italy into a spasm of soul-searching. The mayor of Rome organized a funeral at the capital's historic city hall, where 13 coffins were draped in the blue-and-white Somali flag. But until now, the full story of this journey...
...Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 km of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan Mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity. Unknown, at least, to tourists, because they're pretty familiar to the French, Dutch, American and Norwegian troops from the U.S.-led antiterror coalition camped at Manas airport. They head to Bishkek for R. and R. and the city's only department store, TsUM. In sneakers and baseball caps...
...being at college is “a time for experimenting with sexual intimacy.” In my time you would not have heard deans talking like that. It’s a big change, even if the number of Harvard students who actually experiment is unknown...
...further expose people to classical music, which the Yings admit can “seem separate from society,” the quartet sponsors LifeMusic, a project that commissions pieces from relatively unknown composers with “a distinctively American” sound that any audience can relate to. David cites that these “musical experiments” and collaborative efforts—including an unusual collaboration with Phish—have helped the quartet sustain the magic during their career...
...being at college is “a time for experimenting with sexual intimacy.” In my time you would not have heard deans talking like that. It’s a big change, even if the number of Harvard students who actually experiment is unknown...