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...ports they use would stymie the buccaneers. "We know where these guys live and where their ships and boats operate from - it'd be a simple mission to take them out," says Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine general who ran U.S. Central Command and remains a frequent visitor to the region. "There was talk of the U.S. military doing some kind of mission - the Navy would love to do it - but there's no stomach for it right now." (See pictures of modern-day pirates...
...floor of the White House. William Howard Taft made it into an oval in honor of a symbolic feature of George Washington's Philadelphia residence: a room with a bowed end where the first President would stand surrounded by a circle of guests, allowing him to democratically greet each visitor from the same distance. The office was moved to its current location in the southeast corner of the White House...
...visitor to Harvard’s campus in 1985, Themba Ngcobo had hoped he would have reason to return in the future. This weekend, he fulfilled that wish when he flew from South Africa to Cambridge to visit his son for Freshman Parents’ Weekend. The array of College-sponsored events focusing on the first-year experience allowed parents like Ngcobo—marked by their ubiquitous crimson nametags—to explore the many facets of freshman life. Many parents praised the wide range of events for providing them with a glimpse into their children?...
Twelve miles (19.3 km) and several tax brackets away is Indian Hill, an East Side suburb that is home to those fiscally conservative swing voters the Obama campaign would like to win over. A drive around Indian Hill's winding country lanes leaves a visitor thinking it's less a town than a state park with sprawling manors. Bush beat John Kerry here by better than 3 to 1, and McCain and Palin have each dropped by in the past few months to raise money. But just a few weeks before the 2008 election, the yard signs anchored...
...this afternoon Narcissus was going to have a visitor. The panicked sounds of Frederick Fabreigh’s footsteps were rapidly approaching the room...