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...turning, and the 511-ft.-long ship was soon adrift. "What the hell happened?" Commander Graf demanded from the bridge. She grabbed her cowering navigator and pulled him onto the outdoor bridge wing. "Did you run my f___ing ship aground?" she screamed. Not only was this a possible naval disaster, but it was a diplomatic one as well: the navigator was an officer in the British Royal Navy, a billet unique to the Churchill. (See "The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh...
With the primary still three months away, the hopefuls in the district include a state senator, a county supervisor, a former naval officer, three businessmen and a biology teacher. On a recent Saturday night, they faced questions from their would-be bosses. Who posed the gravest threat to America's national security? "The present Administration," said Jim McKelvey, a Franklin County real estate developer who ponied up $500,000 to jump-start his campaign. (Another candidate, Laurence Verga, suggested "the people that voted the current Administration in.") Instead of jousting over policy, the seven hopefuls served up a buffet...
WILLIAM HAGUE, British shadow foreign secretary, calling for an increased naval presence in the region in light of a current dispute with the South American country over...
...keep children out of risk, de la Soudière needs the help of people like St. Louis and Edith Philistin. A Haitian nurse volunteering on the U.S. naval hospital ship in Port-au-Prince Bay, Philistin was tending to a 6-year-old boy named Kenzie, who was getting emergency treatment for a fractured leg. Both of his parents had died in the quake, and when he couldn't name any relatives - child psychologists say it's not unusual in traumatic situations for a 6-year-old's memory to get cloudy - doctors on the ship were inclined to send...
Winthrop is Harvard’s most welcoming and illustrious House with probably the best corps of alumni that Harvard can offer: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd C. Blankfein ’75, and the Kennedy brothers: naval officer Joseph P. Kennedy '38, former U.S. President John F. Kennedy ’40 and former U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy...