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...Suez Canal. Egged on by generous ransom payments, they're holding more than 300 sailors hostage. Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, was the first one taken off a U.S. vessel. A Red Sox fan, a family man, a good-humored snowboarder, a pillar of his Vermont village who had the courage to offer himself as a hostage in exchange for the safety of his unarmed crew, Phillips is not the sort of person Americans are content to see bound, mocked and threatened in the most lawless corner of the planet. This was a hostage crisis. Had the kidnappers made...
...League Rookie of the Week after she hit .438 in Dartmouth’s five games last week. As Harvard has been heating up, the Big Green has cooled off a bit, splitting a four-game series with third-place Yale last week and dropping a game to Vermont yesterday. But with so much riding on this series, it will be a matter of which team has the focus to grind out the necessary victories.If the Crimson wins the division title, it will do so Sunday at home on Senior Day, giving the weekend an added significance for Bock...
...secessionist movements alive today in Vermont, Hawaii and California are not really battles between left and right: they include libertarian Marxists and tribal-rights activists and anarchists and greens and every other ideology, all stirred up by their opposition to big national government. America is now a multicultural quilt of 300 million people spread across cities and suburbs and forests and prairies; when it is compared with the colonial world of our forebears, it is harder to judge whether what unites us is greater than what divides us - or agree on just how much power we want to cede...
...presidential nod on Tuesday toward the creation of what some are calling a "truth commission" to ferret out the origin of the harsh interrogations is likely to get renewed traction. Democrats Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative John Conyers of Michigan, who head the two congressional judiciary committees, have argued for such a panel, modeled on the widely respected one that studied 9/11. Having sparked the current conflagration by releasing the memos, Obama can only hope that creating such a commission could tamp it down - and keep this political firestorm from sucking up the valuable political oxygen he needs...
...varsity sports teams—tied for most in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With its recent announcement, MIT—which already cut junior varsity programs earlier this year—joins the ranks of schools such as John Hopkins, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the University of Vermont, all of which have cut varsity programs in the past three months in response to the financial downturn. “Since well before the current financial crisis, we have faced hard questions about how to sustain our broad scope of offerings at the level of excellence that participants have...