http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4187 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4187#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:41:28 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=4187 Now that the drama of the Somali pirates is passed—for the moment, anyway—it seems worth commenting on an op-ed piece about the incident that appeared in the Sunday, April 12, 2009 edition of The New York Times. By midday of that day the American merchantman Maersk Alabama was safe in Mombassa]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4187/feed 0