Word: commandant
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...fish are. The captain radiates brisk sanity and humor. Being a woman, she declares, is "no big deal" (though Greenlaw, 38, writes wistfully now and then of wanting to get married and raise children). As captain, she relies on the authority of her competence and her obvious gift for command, whether she is mediating a racial feud among crewmen or pushing them beyond their exhaustion to fill the boat...
John Kennedy Jr., as pilot in command of a small but powerful single-engine plane, should never have taken off in coming haze and darkness without an instrument rating. The tragedy that took the lives of his passengers and blighted those of their families could have and should have been avoided. ANNE DUTHOIT Paris...
...make a helluva gadfly. In a presidential field that had shrunk to four even before the primaries even appeared on the horizon, Beatty would command the press coverage to make the necessary splash, and the Hollywood connections -? galore! ?- to fill the war chest in a hurry. He?s done more womanizing than George W. Bush and at 62, still has a better head of hair than Gore?s, Bradley?s and McCain?s put together. Women love him, or at least they used to, and wife Annette Bening has already played in a couple of movies set in the White...
There may have been no ticker tape parade for General Wesley Clark, but that doesn?t mean he?s getting the military version of a pink slip. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that General Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war over Kosovo, will be removed from his command two months ahead of schedule early next year, linking the move to alleged tensions between Clark and the Pentagon over the conduct of the campaign. But the military?s explanation for the move may hold more water. "The fact is, Clark won the war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
...tight, he could have lost lift. From there it would be straight down, and fast. "The poor guy wasn?t rated for an instrument flight," says Hannifin. "When the weather got beyond his capability and he could no longer see the horizon or the shoreline, it was his command responsibility to turn back." Too late...