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...pilot, she rose steadily through the ranks during a 22-year naval career that culminated with her assuming command of the frigate U.S.S. Jarrett in 1998. She took the vessel and its 262-member crew on a six-month mission to the Persian Gulf in 2000 to hunt for ships smuggling Iraqi oil, leaving her husband Gregory Brandon, an ex--Navy officer, at home in San Diego with the couple's two children, who were adopted from Russia. Though long reluctant to talk of her trailblazing role, she opened up for TIME's Mark Thompson in a story that appeared...
...party chairman, lost his director of strategy and found no coherent line of attack. His latest burden is the revelation that Major, the last Tory Prime Minister, had a four-year affair in the 1980s with Edwina Currie, a boisterous former Health Minister - and tabloid reporters are on the hunt for other women who may have seen Major's blue underpants. This has revived memories of the Tories' bad old days of lurid scandals interspersed with pious calls for higher moral standards. Michael Ancram, the Tories' deputy leader, says his boss will focus on bread-and-butter issues like hospitals...
...After all, can any human editor really keep pace? The appetite for international news exacerbates the problem. Al Jazerra was an unknown news service for years and now suddenly Americans are interested in its reporting from Qatar. And that plays right to Google's strength since it can ostensibly hunt out headlines in jiffy from around the world...
...Professor of Latin and Greek Richard F. Thomas to imply that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s criticism of Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson is akin to a McCarthy-era witch hunt is both inaccurate and insulting (Letters, “Dershowitz Devises One-Sided Debate,” Sept. 27). Thomas ignores a key distinction: Dershowitz has proposed a debate between tenured equals in an academic forum, whereas the McCarthy investigations were inherently unequal and backed up by the coercive power...
...number of pupils. U.S. Gore Speaks Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned that a hasty attack on Iraq would "severely damage" the war on terrorism and "weaken" American leadership in the world. Gore argued that George W. Bush had set his sights on deposing Saddam Hussein because the hunt for Osama bin Laden had faltered. By turning to Iraq, Gore said, "the President has manifestly disposed of the sympathy, goodwill and solidarity compiled by America and transformed it into a sense of deep misgiving and even hostility." Three days later Gore said Bush domestic-security measures amounted...