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...month Navy investigation found that Graf assaulted members of her crew and pressured junior officers to do her improper favors. She grabbed them to get their attention - usually while in a heated discussion. She asked junior officers to play piano at her personal Christmas party and to walk her dogs. Then there were the things she failed to do, like train her crew adequately. This charge seemed to generate the most anger among young officers, who must make the most of their time at sea - and pass critical tests - if they are going to win promotion. "I don't have...
First, Republican Governor Bob McDonnell issued an executive order last month that "specifically prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities." Left off the list, notably, was a mention of sexual orientation...
...Democrats vanished when Massachusetts voters handed Teddy Kennedy's old seat to Scott Brown. Democratic control of the House is in jeopardy, and the party stands to lose at least a half-dozen seats in the Senate. "Unless something significant changes," political handicapper Charlie Cook wrote last month, Democrats "are headed toward the losses of the magnitude we saw in the midterm elections...
...going to see anyone dressed as little people," warns Tom O'Rahilly as he leads my group into Dublin's new National Leprechaun Museum on a preview tour last month. "In fact, you are highly unlikely to see any actual leprechauns...
...Then the Irish economy collapsed in the global downturn, and people's attitudes toward the museum quickly changed. "Admission: one pot of gold, to be sure and begorrah," the Irish Sunday Tribune mocked in the headline of a derisive article about the museum last month. The blogosphere, too, has been fizzing with indignation in recent months. "Truly the Jedward of museums," railed one Twitter poster, referring to the Irish singing twins John and Edward Grimes, who appeared on Simon Cowell's The X Factor talent show in the U.K. and Ireland last year. (The twins became more famous for their...