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...late September, three months into the siege, the bandits hijacked a second vessel, the Egypt-based Ibn Batuta. A few days later, after the pirates took Mahalingam and his chief engineer ashore for a day to visit the pirate bosses, the pirates gathered their weapons, piled into their speedboats and abandoned both the Semlow and the Ibn Batuta. The WFP says it didn't pay any ransom, but Kudrati told TIME that his shipping company handed over $135,000. "In the end we had to give in to them," he says...
...Gold Cup and beloved by racegoers, the legendary gelding collapsed from a heart attack just before the last jump on the Exeter course as his trainer, Henrietta Knight, looked on. Known to millions of fans as "Matey," he had just returned to form after recuperating from a burst blood vessel. "He died doing what he loved, which was to race," said Knight, of the graceful, gutsy and reliable jumper...
...time cleaning their weapons, marching in haphazard formation on the deck, and chewing miraa, a mildly narcotic leaf popular in Somalia. They shot at any boats that came too close. One day an associate came from the mainland with a note that said, "the Somali Navy has captured your vessel...
...Rodin, with the fiercely modeled turmoil at its base, might almost have come from his hand. In a sense, of course, it did. But in time his example would prove too formidable. Rodin had rethought the human body more thoroughly than any sculptor since Michelangelo and made it the vessel of passions-pain, pathos, ecstasy-that the increasingly insipid conventions of 19th century statuary could not contain. That is immediately apparent in his magnificent Saint John the Baptist, a lean, striding nude who bears no attributes of the saint-no lamb, no staff-so that the saint's spiritual force...
...China's earliest history. Among his acquisitions in the museum's extensive bronze collection is an enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly 1550 to 1050 B.C.), was used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting in its chest or being devoured. The placid expression on the child...