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...side of the hull to get the ship back in an upright position created far too much stress, says Wade. "After that, the final sinking could be easily predicted. Its death warrant was signed." And the Spanish authorities, he contends, exacerbated the effects of what should have been a minor oil spill by refusing to give the damaged vessel permission to dock in a sheltered area. "It leaked over 290 km of coast instead of in a small bay in which it could have been contained," he says. ABS, says Wade, has reviewed its records on the Prestige...
...fallout made him, as he says, a “minor celebrity.” He received numerous angry emails charging that the cartoon was cruel and insensitive...
...soon entered an excruciating downward spiral of which many were unaware and others were powerless to stop. He became addicted to crystal methamphetamine, spent an increasing amount of time in casinos and strip joints, and endured several minor scrapes with the law. Each incident served to gradually erode his political credibility and widen the already considerable rift with his family...
...House, the resignation of minority leader Richard Gephardt set off a fight for the soul of the party. His probable replacement, Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, is an unapologetic member of the party's liberal wing--most recently she led the fight against the President's drive for congressional authorization to strike Iraq--and a scion of a minor Democratic dynasty: her father served in Congress and as mayor of Baltimore, a job her brother also held. (Her daughter Alexandra became friendly with Bush while making Journeys with George, a documentary about his presidential campaign.) The apparent anointment of Pelosi...
Statistics and baseball have been intertwined for Morris ever since he first pored over box scores as a teenager in the 1950s in San Diego. Watching the then-minor league San Diego Padres, Morris says he developed an “early love for quantitative systems and theories” and actually wanted to be a statistician when he was very young. “I thought it would be such fun to figure things out like batting averages as a young teen,” he says, “but I dismissed it [as a career], like being...