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...When I turned to your invention of the Year [Nov. 10], my eye fell upon a beautiful young woman wrapped in a closely typed aura of sheer unpredictability; so I thought it wise to put the record straight. My wife got there first - decades ago. Peter Terry, Johannesburg...
...absence of any agreed-upon truth is what really drives the movie. But if one viewpoint is foremost, it is Kraisak's. After the 1991 military coup against his Prime Minister father, General Chatichai Choonhavan, Kraisak was indicted on assassination plots against rival generals and fled. Locals in the border region helped his escape, smuggling him to Malaysia. (He returned safely to Thailand two years later and denies the charges, which were never pressed.) In Citizen Juling, he returns the favor. "I had to pay back these people for their help by showing there was at least one Thai...
...Even though Magnarelli’s presence will be sorely missed on the court, the freshmen have shown that they can be counted upon to step up and have a big game when they are needed...
...here that I cannot get anywhere else,” resident Robert Brimmer said after buying a New York Times at the kiosk yesterday. “This is terrible.” “Oh no, please not another one,” Phillip W.D. Martin said upon learning that the kiosk is likely to close. Martin, a journalist and former Nieman Fellow who has lived in Cambridge since 1979, said he buys papers from Out of Town News twice a week. But some students like Kelly J. Warren ’11, who said she reads...
...ships aren't too difficult to capture. Commercial shippers - and many ports - generally frown upon if not ban crews from carrying weapons. So when bands of pirates approach a target ship at high speed with machine guns and RPGs blazing, there's little fighting back that the crew can do. Reports to the International Maritime Bureau on hijackings detail crews using water shot from fire hoses, evasive maneuvers that sometimes generate waves to keep the pirates at bay and "Mayday" calls to other ships as the key defenses against pirates...