Word: agrounder
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...cared for their subjects more than for their family members, but alas such benevolence is rare these days. Indians can only dream of a leader like Bhumibol who could steer the ship of state to a safe harbor rather than sailing into storms of selfish politicians and running aground on the rocky shore. Arvind A. Choudhari Belfast A City on the Seas Your article about Royal Caribbean's new cruise ship [June 19] painted a subtly negative picture of cruising, which is not warranted. I recently cruised on a sister ship that carries nearly as many passengers...
...novels into a movie placed a reef in the middle of the (reefless) Chesapeake Bay for plot reasons. Thinking back on the account of this Sturm und Drang in a teacup, I thought, Dude, count your blessings. The movie version of one of my novels had just run aground again, not in the Chesapeake but somewhere in the middle of that reef and wreck-strewn seascape known as Hollywood...
...SENTENCED. CHENG CHUI-PING, 57, a.k.a. Sister Ping, leader of a Chinese-immigrant-smuggling ring who helped finance the 1993 voyage of the freighter Golden Venture, which ran aground off New York with 300 starving Chinese passengers aboard, 10 of whom died trying to swim to U.S. soil; to the maximum sentence of 35 years in prison, for money laundering, conspiracy, and trafficking in ransom proceeds; in New York City. Cheng, who reportedly arranged the transport of thousands of illegal immigrants from her base in New York's Chinatown, claimed she was an innocent victim terrorized by Chinese gangs...
...know, we’re probably too hard on the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC). Between boat cruises that run aground, rain-soaked after-parties that lack star acts, and concerts that don’t, but that fail anyway, it really is easy to criticize the UC. But that a group of college students can even contrive to undertake the kind of massive projects that the UC regularly does is a pretty remarkable feat.Even this knowledge, however, was insufficient to keep me calm on a sunny Saturday afternoon in New Haven, when the UC’s plans...
...Numbers $7,000 Fine levied on Greenpeace for damage to a coral reef at a Philippine marine park when its flagship Rainbow Warrior II ran aground during a visit to investigate the impact of climate change...