Word: vessels
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...said Cathleen D. McCormick, Director of Programs for the Office for the Arts at Harvard. Odundo—who was born in Nairobi and now resides in Hampshire, UK, where she teaches at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham—discussed her more recent work with vessels as well as her inspiration since she began creating pottery around 1975. “My whole idea of living as an artist is to be observant of what happens around me,” Odundo said. “Nuances like the drip of water droplets are very important...
...country as a whole: they are Republican and Democratic and independent; they live in red states and blue ones and purple ones. Some of you have made up your minds; some of you haven't. I feel strongly about our role because these days the media are the vessel for so much information--both reliable and otherwise--that people use to vote. In fact, that's our role in our democracy. "Whenever the people are well informed," wrote Thomas Jefferson, "they can be trusted with their own government." Our job is to keep you as well informed as possible...
...what if Obama, our vessel of what is best in us, comes up short? What if Obama loses? What will it mean...
...Belize flag, the freighter seemed no different from any of the 60 other ships attacked by pirates this year in the same waters. And Ali and his men had no reason to believe the outcome of this hijacking would be any different. In a well-established routine, a vessel is typically held for a few days or weeks while the pirates negotiate a ransom with the ship's owners, usually netting between $500,000 and $2 million. Then ship and crew are then released unharmed. This year, according to a new report by the British think tank Chatham House...
...That legislation has spelled trouble for Ali and his cohorts. Fueled by fears that the cache of weapons could make its way to al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, the U.S. sent warships to encircle the anchored vessel as an international fleet hurried to join them. In his interview with the Times, Ali seemed cheerfully fatalistic about the prospect of tangling with the world's naval superpowers: "We know you only die once." Rumors flew that three pirates had already perished during a shootout stemming from a disagreement over whether to surrender, but the pirate spokesman dismissed the claim. He said...