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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...
...Stade was named assistant dean of Harvard College in 1940. During World War II, von Stade left Harvard to join Naval Intelligence, but he returned in 1946 to his former post. He was named Dean of Freshmen...
...South Pacific, the controversy took on the trappings of a naval battle as the militant environmental organization Greenpeace and a 25-boat "peace flotilla" approached the Mururoa test site. Four days before the blast, after Greenpeace penetrated a 12-mile security zone, black-suited French navy commandos boarded and commandeered the two lead vessels, signaling Paris' determination to go ahead with the tests--despite the inevitable global backlash...