Word: fishinger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
She takes us on that ferry to Sudan, on soldier-haunted drives around the desert and to a soothsayer's home in Cairo. Yet the heart of her book is an inner quest as she tries to piece together the fragments of her life and loves by observing the natural...
PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia: An American flag has been burned and a court order has been distributed. But the Alaska-bound ferry Malaspina loaded with American tourists remains hemmed in by a tiny armada of Canadian fishing boats at Prince Rupert. The vigilantes are protesting Alaskan catches of the premier...
What's left for Starr? He continues his probe of Hubbell, who left the Justice Department en route to jail in 1994 but detoured into work for a host of companies friendly to the Democratic Party. Starr has just hired three seasoned prosecutors, in part because he needs the benefit...
The most striking, and frightening, is Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm (Norton; 227 pages; $23.95). The somewhat peculiar title refers to the disastrous confluence of a large hurricane and a muscular nor'easter in the fishing grounds off New England and Newfoundland in 1991. The Andrea Gail, a 72...
Exactly what happened to the fishing boat is not known, though the 100-ft. waves of what was called the Halloween Gale were more than enough to capsize such a boat or to pitchpole it end for end. What happened to the crew is clearer, and Junger is grimly precise...