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...submarine's bow torpedo bay, has been delayed at least a week, raising new questions about just how serious the Russian government is about ever finding out just what went wrong. The delay has been explained as a failure of the Dutch-made underwater saw-chain and as the fault of rumored poor training of the Russian contingent of the diving team. Unconfirmed information that the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office (CMPO) allegedly intervened to prevent sawing off the bow, only heightens suspicions that the boat will never be raised - or was ever meant to be raised...
...Still, the Russian political and military brass would much rather let the Barents sea keep the evidence of their own fault than ever admit it, believes Vice-Admiral (R) Yevgeni Chernov. A sailor with 33 years experience in the silent service and once a fabled commander of the Northern Fleet nuclear submarines, Chernov contends that the raising operation was intentionally launched as a cover-up to leave the Kursk on the sea floor...
...continually been dropping strange hints about the disarray in his life. For instance, he kept dropping cryptic remarks revealing that he was in a precarious position at work. Just after we crashed, we were discussing the carelessness of the other boat—clearly it was their fault, not ours. All of a sudden he turns to me and says, “I probably shouldn’t be telling you this, since you’re stuck in the middle of the river with me, but sometimes I fear for my mental health. I can?...
...feeling so sick I didn’t even think to call the paper and tell them I was okay. When my editor called a short time later—after calling the hospital looking for me and after threatening my friend Lindsay that if was her fault if I was dead—I had already thrown up for the fifth and final time. She wanted me to take the day off, but I had a telephone interview scheduled with the local university chancellor that afternoon, so I came in. He called, and after a few minutes I felt...
...best part was when I got to ride down to the cafeteria crammed into an elevator with, like, 15 women, all dressed for the Sahara. The worst, though was when I realized that this was all the Republicans? fault...