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...Currier bookshelf, beside Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," that Government concentrator Paul S. Gutman '00 keeps "Alonzo Purr," a book about a ferryboat captain's cat. No, the sophomore government tutorial did not recently expand its reading list: like many of his peers, Gutman remains attached to a memorable book from his childhood...
...head mistress of my high school's sister school was named Liza Lee," Gutman said--the same name as an "Alonzo Purr" character, the ferryboat Liza...
...than 200 Haitians at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are also shunning food in protest. Meanwhile, bad news keeps rolling in for Haitians. In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees traveling around the island) sank during a rainstorm. Only about 300 people are known to have survived, though more might have escaped...
...bank of a river, he met an ascetic who claimed that after practicing austerity for 25 years, he was at last able to cross the river by walking on the water. The Buddha said he was sorry that the man had wasted so much time and effort: the ferryboat would take him across for one penny...
...many of Albania's 3.2 million people, the elections alone offered insufficient hope of change. Less than a week before the voting, thousands gathered in the port city of Durres, drawn by fantastic rumors of waiting ships, including a ferryboat bound for Boston. Police fired automatic weapons over the heads of a stone-throwing throng trying to storm the harbor; 29 people, including 12 police, were reported injured. Earlier in March some 20,000 Albanians had scrambled aboard any boat bound for the nearest ports in Italy, and thousands more are desperate to leave...