Word: naval
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...during a commercial-airline flight. An additional 20 or so sailors were also on board--including a Navy chaplain with the rank of lieutenant commander--who apparently did nothing to intervene, despite the woman's screams. Further unwelcome news for Navy brass: some two dozen midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy are under investigation for alleged marijuana...
...captive of special interests. He has had to defend the $1 million in campaign contributions he has reportedly received from the tobacco and gambling industries over the years (he stirred up more controversy when he suggested exploring the idea of opening a casino at a local naval base). Achtenberg, for her part, cannot count on a solid gay vote. Some are angry that she quit her Washington position, the highest ever held by an openly gay federal official. Indeed, she is likely to take only half the gay vote...
Captain Everett Greene, the former head of the Navy's equal-opportunity unit and the highest naval officer to be court-martialed since World War II, was acquitted of sexual-harassment charges by a jury of senior naval officers. Greene had steadfastly maintained throughout the proceedings that friendly letters and notes to two female subordinates had been misconstrued as advances...
Four years after the infamous Tailhook scandal, the Navy is, at the very least, still climbing a steep learning curve. Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda, chief of naval operations, does not see a trend in the rash of sexual-harassment cases. "We have set some standards," he says, "and I think what you're seeing now is the result of those standards being applied...
...mistreatment. And that mistreatment is portrayed so luridly-Nicholls' Elizabeth, especially, is a snickering ghoul-that Walter and Elizabeth Elliot seem closer to the wicked step-family of Cinderella than the conceited fools of Austen's novel. Likewise, Ciaran Hinds' Wentworth, while he cuts a fine figure in his naval uniform, gives little sense of that personal merit which ostensibly attracts Anne...