Word: captain
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...fisherman who is as accomplished at her form of seamanship as the sailors of the Vendee Globe are at theirs. In The Perfect Storm--an account of the savage Halloween gale of 1991 in the Atlantic off Massachusetts--author Sebastian Junger described Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." The Hungry Ocean is Greenlaw's account of a 30-day trip aboard the 100-ft. sword boat Hannah Boden as it steams out with a five-man crew from the Massachusetts coast to the Grand Banks and then strings out 40 miles of line...
DIED. HAROLD HENRY ("Pee Wee") REESE, 81, Hall of Fame baseball shortstop and captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the team and began the historic racial integration of the sport. Reese's very public camaraderie with Robinson was crucial in dissipating the ugliness that greeted the rookie. Reese led the Dodgers to seven National League pennants and, in 1955, to Brooklyn's only world championship. He retired in 1958, after a year in the Dodgers' new home, Los Angeles...
Each of our heroes has a tiny, not very useful skill. Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller) works himself into a fine rage. The Blue Rajah (Hank Azaria) flings silverware. And the Shoveler (William H. Macy)--as he says, "I shovel well. I shovel very well." While glitzy Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear) routinely saves Champion City with his bravado and big ego, the Mystery Men must scrounge to find the perils they believe they were born to overcome...
Attending this program, James Fugitte, president of an electronic-payments-processing company in Elizabethtown, Ky., was fascinated by "how, with such clarity, Lincoln articulated the role the government should take to win the war." Fugitte could see how the actions of a captain of industry at the dawn of the 21st century, while not as dramatic as Lincoln's, are remarkably relevant. For any offsite to be effective, relevance is key. Participants, says Zimmerer, must go back to work and say, "I see what I learned, and I can transfer it to what I do every...
...going to give the students at Harvard Summer School the secret to being accepted to Harvard University," he said. "To paraphrase the Backstreet Boys, I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did--as long as you're valedictorian and captain of the lacrosse team...