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...foundered. The hijackers had increased their ransom demand and reneged on an agreement to allow the rice to be handed over to the Somali government. When the Semlow's generator ran out of oil, the pirates accused the crew of hoarding it. One Somali fired a shot through the window on the bridge. "We thought this trip was the end of our lives," remembered able seaman Rashid Juma Mwatuga, 42. In late September the Ibn Batuta, an Egyptian ship carrying cement, appeared on the horizon. "The pirates told me they were going to hijack this passing ship," says Mahalingam. "What...
Pinker is foregoing teaching this semester to spend time writing his new book, tentatively titled “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature,” but his presence still looms large on campus...
...packed doorways to hear the presentation, which was given by Kim Airs, who owns the sex boutique The Grand Opening. Even so, 50 to 60 students had to be turned away, according to Mellor. “I wanted to be here so badly that I climbed through the window,” said Nicole M. Brown ’08. Last year’s seminar was held in the Adams Lower Common room, but the lecture had to be moved to Emerson 105 to accommodate a larger audience. Those who managed to penetrate the dense crowds were treated...
When you travel to Mexico, you will notice on the back window of Ford cars a sticker that reads el futuro de mexico es hecho en mexico, which translates, ''The future of Mexico is made in Mexico.'' If America intends to survive as an industrial power, its motto should be, ''The future of the U.S. is made...
...strange new sound in my ear. Granted, in the soft days of Cambridge autumn, it’s not entirely unusual to hear birds just above the heaving and clanking of trucks on JFK Street—but this bird was not cooing at me from my window. It was as if I had literally bedded a cranky parrot, or kept a menagerie in my pillow...