Word: fisherman
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...figured there was a market for Japanese-speaking lawyers," he says. There was. Since 2002 he has practiced intellectual-property law at New York's Day Pitney, from which he may someday segue into baseball agenting. Eventually, "I'd like to find a fishing boat and be a fisherman," says Norton. "Until then, my work is interesting enough to keep me motivated--for at least another five years...
...expert at the art of “bug catching,” an expression that stirs up more drama than the average land-dweller would think. “Islander,” writer-director Ian McCrudden’s latest project, chronicles the life of a lobster fisherman learning to accept the consequences of an act which tears his life apart. Although the film’s plot lacks narrative drive, the strong sense of place, quirky subject material, and solid acting carries the film from a dramatic start to a heartwarming finish. Eben Cole, a lifelong fisherman...
Late last year, Ergas launched Atmosphere, a $20 million, custom-built, 28-passenger ship, with which he plans to merge the family tradition of making money with his love of fly fishing in the isolated fjords of Chilean Patagonia. Charging fly fisherman $15,000 a week and ecotourists $10,000, Ergas' lure is the chance to travel in style to the end of the earth - and leave no trace. Onboard, it's like a trendy Scandinavian penthouse: white floors, outdoor jacuzzis, ambient grooves trickling through iTunes. The staff of 33 read like a Who's Who of Chilean military...
...puddled road, past piles of tires burning in a cold rain, the taxi met Israeli army jeeps highballing in the other direction, toward the shabab, the Palestinian youths with stones. The soldiers were driving fast, as they do in the territories, their radio antennas whipping like a fly-fisherman's rod with a trout on the line. The soldiers' weapons bristled from the sides of the jeeps, and they wore heavy, stone-proof hard plastic helmets with wraparound clear visors that hid their faces -- a space- alien effect. ''We should go back to see what happens,'' the passenger said, unthinkingly...
...movie follows the fortunes of a soldier turned diamond smuggler who works with both warlords and an international diamond corporation. He gets into a scrape and needs to find a huge pink diamond hidden by a fisherman in forced servitude to said warlords. And he meets a gorgeous crusading journalist who knows he can help her blow the story wide open. Along the way, many unromantic acts are perpetrated in the pursuit of the gemstones...