https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:14:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4187 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:41:28 +0000 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]]>