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...said we would do all we could after the Alaska spill: we took responsibility, we spent over $2 billion, and we gave Alaska fishermen $200 million on no more than their showing us a fishing license and last year's tax return. And we're "arrogant." That bothers the hell out of me. Maybe "big" is just arrogant. Or maybe I just get emotional and that's arrogant. Or maybe I say things people don't like to hear. Is that arrogance? You tell...
...Alaska was just the beginning. Next there was a refinery explosion in Louisiana. Then a 567,000 gallon spill off New York City, and most recently another spill in the same area. Isn't there a pattern here...
...think, in the end, the Alaska spill was caused by compounded human failure. In Louisiana that was legitimately an act of God. We still don't know why that pipeline broke, and it doesn't look like corrosion. But the refinery was halfway back up in 15 days, and is now fully operational. Incidentally, there were a lot of heroes in that accident. It was a good safety response. As for Arthur Kill ((the big New York spill)), that was an act of God ripping that pipeline, but the way it was handled afterward was human error...
First round action involves a best-of-three series between the following pairings: North Dakota (27-11-4) at Boston University (21-14-2), Bowling Green (25-15-2) at Maine (31-9-2), Alaska-Anchorage (17-9-2) at Lake Superior St. (31-8-3) and Clarkson (21-9-3) at Minnesota...
Despite the ill-considered sale of Alaska, the Romanov Empire by now extended over nearly 7,000 miles, but the vast structure had little strength. The Empire of Japan, newly reopened after its long isolation, proved that in the war of 1905. Though outnumbered, the Japanese pushed back a Russian invasion of Manchuria and virtually annihilated the Russian Navy. Czar Nicholas II barely survived the humiliation and the subsequent revolution that swept over Russia. Eleven years later he blundered into another war, another defeat, another revolution. In the 1918 Treaty of Brest Litovsk, the Germans' price for making peace with...