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...predicted location was out by just three nautical miles. Yet his results lay untouched for years as funding and technological limitations hobbled the search effort. Eventually, however, Kirsner's work and research by Mearns using the diary of the Kormoran's captain convinced government to put up more than $4 million for the search, says Ted Graham. "No one had looked in this particular area before - and the technology, the funding and the expertise had not been available until now." Former signaler McDonald, who suspects details of the battle were hushed up at the time, says he won't believe...
...Both were near where Kormoran survivors had told interrogators they would be. In the 1990s, Perth naval-history buff Kim Kirsner sifted through those accounts and came up with possible coordinates. But many people were reluctant to believe the enemy, he says. The Germans stood accused of luring the Sydney with a white flag, sinking her and shooting at her crew in the water. There was "always a chorus in the background," says Kirsner, "that the Germans lied...
...play it, golf ain't no sport. At the first tee, after I load up my golf cart with a 12-pack of beer and a bucket of fried chicken (like 98% of the other hackers on the course), I am hardly the picture of an athlete. BERNIE KIRSNER Fontana...
...Johnson & Johnson will have the problem of fighting off lawsuits. At least four were filed last week. Three, brought by members of the families of people who died after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol, ask for damages totaling $35 million. The fourth is a class-action suit brought by Merle Kirsner of Highland Park, Ill., demanding refunds for everyone who bought Tylenol products in the entire country this year - maybe $600 million, including retail markups, estimates Kirsner's lawyer...
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