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...police combing the arena for intruders and worry that merely dropping Alford’s name might not be enough keep me backstage for long. So I make the most of my time. We are at Eleganza, in the midst of what appears to be the staging area of a circus tent. Half-naked men anxiously sashay through racks of designer clothing as scantily-clad women strap on cheetah-print loincloths and high heels. “The belly dancers are about to start!” someone with a clipboard and an earpiece shouts. In the midst of this...
...percent since they started construction,” he said. Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said that Cambridge is making an effort to aid ailing businesses during construction. In addition to posting signs encouraging customers to support stores in the area, “the city has really made incredible effort and strides in communicating almost on a daily basis with different businesses,” she said. While she acknowledged the financial struggles the construction has created, she said that it is necessary to improve the safety of both pedestrians and motorists alike...
...Stepping off his porch, I reentered America. A week later, I returned to the neighborhood to go on Michele Topor’s culinary tour of the North End. Topor, a trained chef and resident of the North End for almost four decades, has been leading trips through the area for the past 14 years. The first stop on the three-hour walking and tasting tour was Maria’s Pastry Shop, five minutes from the Haymarket station on the T’s green line. The skepticism I had for the tour and the North End lasted...
...Cessna's single engine could not have failed over a worse patch of Colombian jungle. On Feb. 13, 2003, four U.S. defense contractors and a Colombian police officer, on a routine surveillance flight looking for rural cocaine laboratories, made an emergency landing in southern Colombia. The area is a stronghold of the fierce Marxist guerrillas known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC. Rebel soldiers swarmed over the shattered plane, shooting and killing its U.S. pilot, Thomas Janis, and the Colombian officer, Luis Cruz. They stripped the remaining Americans -Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves - of their clothes...
...Meanwhile, the American hostages follow a dismal routine, say Pinchao and other recently released hostages. They are forced into days-long marches to new camps when the FARC fears the military is close. Their rice-and-bean meals are varied only when they're near a river or an area where wild pigs roam, and they often fight illnesses like hepatitis with only poorly trained nurses to treat them. (The FARC refuses visits by Red Cross medical teams.) Pinchao, 37, says Stansell taught him how to swim during river-bathing sessions - a skill that later helped him escape. Stansell also...