Word: navalism
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...southern and western suburbs, of course, but it is dwarfed by the human drama. Sestak is a local boy made good, a graduate of Cardinal O'Hara High School in Springfield, Pa., who attended Annapolis and then spent 31 years in the Navy, including command of the U.S. naval battle group in the Persian Gulf during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003. His opponent, the Republican incumbent Curt Weldon, is also a local boy made good, a classic Reagan Republican. He's a working-class kid, former volunteer fire chief and local pol who has built a reputation...
...Sept. 20-23. If you command the kind of disposable income that puts you in the market for a Lürssen or a Sunseeker - the Maybach and the Rolls-Royce, respectively, of pleasure yachts - then any of the 520 exhibitors representing 77 shipyards, 29 yacht brokers and 54 naval architects would be delighted...
...command the kind of disposable income that puts you in the market for a Lürssen or a Sunseeker - the Maybach and the Rolls-Royce, respectively, of pleasure yachts - then any of the 520 exhibitors representing 77 shipyards, 29 yacht brokers and 54 naval architects would be delighted to see you. If your means are more constrained, no matter: you can still gawp at the stunning craft on display. More than 90 of the most luxurious yachts in the world - some as long as 90 m - will be moored in a "floating exhibition" at Port Hercule. But be warned...
...suggestion that Paris wasn't pulling its weight. A French general commands the existing 2,000-strong unifil force, which has been monitoring conflict along the border since 1978, and the French government says it is ready to keep that command through February. France will also maintain its naval presence, which has been shuttling evacuees to Cyprus. What it balks at is committing large numbers of troops to the enlarged U.N. force itself. "I remember the painful experience of other operations where U.N. forces didn't have sufficiently precise missions or means," Alliot-Marie told French radio, recalling the deaths...
When the Bush Administration began delivering hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2002, most in Washington expected Cuban President Fidel Castro to go ballistic. He didn't. And according to vet??eran Cuba watchers like former CIA analyst Brian Latell, it was Fidel's younger brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro, who kept the communist dictator's anti-yanqui rants in check. Going further, Raul even assured reporters that if any Guantanamo prisoners escaped, Cuban security forces would capture and return them - a gesture that left much of the international community scratching...