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...Democratic Party has seemed unfortunately adrift of late. Its decision to set sail from Boston Harbor in 2004 might just provide the party with the anchor and compass it needs to navigate its way to victory...
What do you miss when you're adrift on a merciless ocean? "Mostly TV," admits Californian RICHARD VAN PHAM, 62, who says he was stuck in a boat for nearly four months on the Pacific's high seas. Pham says a voyage planned as a three-day trip to Santa Catalina Island went scarily wrong when a hook attached to his mast snapped and his radio went dead. He says he then floated for 2,500 miles, living at first on a two-month supply of rice, beans, tomatoes and water, then on rainwater, tuna and turtles, until...
...remember, of course, the Caroline incident? (Don't worry; neither did I.) In 1837 Canadian forces attacked a U.S. ship of that name, killed one of its passengers, set it on fire and then cast it adrift just above Niagara Falls. The British government said its forces had acted in self-defense; those on the Caroline, London claimed, were supporters of a rebellion against British rule in Canada. In an exchange of diplomatic notes, U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster argued that a nation could only justify such pre-emptive hostile action if there was a necessity "instant, overwhelming, leaving...
...remember, of course, the Caroline incident? (Don't worry; neither did I.) In 1837 Canadian forces attacked a U.S. ship of that name, killed one of its passengers, set it on fire and then cast it adrift just above Niagara Falls. The British government said its forces had acted in self-defense; those on the Caroline, London claimed, were supporters of a rebellion against British rule in Canada. In an exchange of diplomatic notes, U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster argued that a nation could only justify such pre-emptive hostile action if there was a necessity "instant, overwhelming, leaving...
Some members of Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) say that without Radcliffe College, RUS was initially adrift...