Word: crews
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Clinton had a somewhat easier time getting access to O'Grady than most others who have sought him since his rescue. An aide of Dan Rather's hounded the crew of the U.S.S. Kearsarge, the ship O'Grady was taken to from Bosnia, and insisted repeatedly that he be put through to O'Grady's stateroom. The aide had no luck. Jane Pauley managed to persuade O'Grady to appear on Dateline NBC, but only after an endless series of phone calls and personal notes. And as O'Grady's father William says, "we're being contacted by everyone...
...helicopter's side door had been open for all of three seconds when O'Grady tumbled across its threshold. He relinquished his 9-mm Beretta pistol to the crew and pulled on Berndt's Gore-Tex parka and a crash helmet. "I'll never forget the look on his face as he was running toward our aircraft," said Berndt. "He had this pistol in his right hand -- looking like he had been in the field trying to survive for six days, and knowing we were there to pull him out." Nobody, Berndt added somewhat incredulously, "even got off our helicopter...
...courses and the world's most prestigious tournament, is 41-year-old Peter Smith, the son of former superintendent Elmer Smith, who was the son of George Smith, one of the Shinnecocks who helped maintain the original course. In fact, of the 18 men on Peter Smith's regular crew, 16 are Native Americans, including his son, 20-year-old Brian. "By keeping the tradition of this course," says Peter, "we are keeping the tradition of our tribe...
Hanging up in his office in the maintenance shed is a souvenir print of an Indian in a headdress with this legend underneath: around this camp, there's only one chief. Smith, whose tribal name is Running Bear, is a benevolent chief. He is unfailingly considerate of his crew members, making sure they have enough money for lunch, enough passes for the Open, enough rest for what he calls "the war" -- when 156 golfers and 30,000 fans a day invade Shinnecock. A 1975 Dartmouth graduate, Smith thought he might become a teacher or a banker. "My father never meant...
...years ago when he castigated rap singer Sister Souljah for saying that blacks have killed one another long enough and that it was time for them to start killing whites. When you glamourize murder, as Natural Born Killers does; or glorify violence against women, as does 2 Live Crew; when lyrics are anti-Semitic, as Public Enemy's are, or advocate hatred of gays and immigrants, as those of Guns N' Roses do, it's not just conservatives who know something has gone wrong; any thinking liberal does...