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...calls. The first came during game No. 444 in April 1985, when Ripken sprained his ankle on a pick-off play in the third inning. Although he continued playing, his ankle was badly swollen and discolored after the game. Fortunately, the Orioles had scheduled an exhibition game against the Naval Academy the next day. The second near-miss came as a result of a bench-clearing melee with the Seattle Mariners during game No. 1,790 in June of '93. Ripken twisted his knee, and when he woke up the next morning, he couldn't put his weight...
...offices are being set up in the Army, Navy and Air Force. In June the National Defense University in Washington quietly graduated its first class of 16 infowar officers, specially trained in everything from defending against computer attacks to using virtual reality in planning battle maneuvers. Last month the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, finished a global war game that had information-warfare specialists plotting ways to cripple enemy computers. Later this summer senior Pentagon officials will analyze the results of more than a dozen secret infowar games conducted during the past two years to determine how future...
...officer, let alone saw action in the Civil War. This insufficiency troubled him and accounts for a curious adventure he undertook in 1866, when he sailed from France to Chile--a long and grueling trip across the Atlantic and around the Horn--to be present at a Spanish naval blockade of the port of Valparaiso. By the end of the year he was back in Paris, with a few crepuscular seascapes but no honorable scars to show for his excursion...
...North Vietnamese--knowing that McCain's father was the famous Admiral Jack McCain, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific forces--tried to release the young flyer early on as a propaganda gesture, McCain, crippled and skeletal, spat in their faces and let loose such an outpouring of naval obscenity that the startled North Vietnamese dignitaries flew backward out of McCain's cell like tumbleweed...
...suggests Timberg, perhaps unhinged in some surreal way that involves a dangerous mix of self-dramatization and stupidity. McCain: a raunchy screw-up and party boy who graduated near the bottom of his Annapolis class but magnificently rose to the occasion later. Poindexter: a brilliant student at the Naval Academy who suffered afterward, in Timberg's rendering, from a blind-side naivete about politics. McFarlane: a saintly self-diminisher, subverted by thoughts of his own unworthiness but cherishing immense ambitions. When McFarlane attempted suicide in 1987 under the strain of Iran-contra, it was by the strangely unmartial means...