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Choppy Seas Re "The Sea Witch" [March 22]: I find it ironic that among the accusations against Captain Holly Graf is that she used "salty" language. Does the phrase swears like a sailor apply only to nonmilitary mariners? Richard Baker, CORNWALL ON HUDSON...
...will replace long-serving member James R. Houghton ’58, who joined the Corporation in 1995 and, in 2002, became its senior fellow—a position members have in the past described as a first among equals...
...last two decades. In January 2010 sales of the M800 were down 55% over the same period the previous year as Indians opt for cars with features like power steering, more contemporary styling and new technology like fuel efficient engines. The scooter, meanwhile, has lost its appeal among the younger generation for not being macho enough. The two-wheeler has always been associated with teachers, professors and government clerks and is considered too "serious looking" for young people, says Rahul Bajaj, chairman of the Bajaj group. Waiting lists for Bajaj scooters are a thing of the past...
...killed in a plane crash on Saturday in western Russia, setting off a new cycle of grievances between Russia and Poland on a day that was supposed to serve the cause of reconciliation between them. President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of his top security officials were among the 96 people killed in the crash. As the fuselage of the Soviet-made Tupelov airplane (operated by a Polish airliner) still smoldered in forest near the city of Smolensk, the grim irony of their deaths became clear to the stunned Polish nation: Their president had been...
...Russia handles the investigation of the crash alongside Polish authorities. For his part, Putin is traveling to Smolensk on Saturday to help oversee the inquiry and meet with Tusk, who has also said he is coming to the scene of the crash. But whatever the investigators find among the wreckage, Poles will now have yet another tragic reason to mourn their countrymen in the forests around Katyn...