Word: nebraska
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...this far, McCain had to triumph over his enemies. Now he has to defeat a pal, Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, who calls McCain his best friend in the Senate. Hagel still wears his MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT button occasionally, and shows off a framed TIME cover of McCain inscribed "To my dear friend." Yet he has authored a rival bill that has emerged as the favorite disguise for those who want to look like reformers while leaving the system porous enough for Denise Rich to drive a pardon through. Hagel's proposal does not ban soft-money contributions but simply caps...
When you write a book about the Navy, your book tour usually takes to cities along the East and West Coast, where Navy bases are located. But twice I've stopped in Nebraska, which is about as far as you can get in this country from a U.S. Navy ship or any ocean. I was shuttling between Lincoln and Omaha last week for good reason, however. My book, "Big Red," is about the USS Nebraska Trident submarine, and much to the astonishment of my publisher, it's selling briskly in Nebraska. "Big Red" is the nickname of the USS Nebraska...
...considering what kind of legal proceeding should be taken against the Greeneville's skipper, Cdr. Scott Waddle. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, meanwhile, is mulling whether he should clamp down on the services' allowing civilians to ride on their war machines. But the reception I've gotten in Nebraska explains why the Navy wants to continue the practice...
...bond between Nebraska and the Trident named after it is one of the strongest any state has with a warship. Climb down into the USS Nebraska and you find it's filled with memorabilia from the state. University of Nebraska pennants and posters are tacked up everywhere. Glass cases display footballs from championship games the school has won. In the crew's mess hangs a wooden sign with "Cornhusker Cafe" carved on it. When a young crewman earns his dolphins pin, which he gets after serving an apprenticeship on the sub, he must sing the University of Nebraska fight song...
...There are three things Nebraskans are proud of, the submariners told me: the University of Nebraska football team, the corn the state grows, and this Trident submarine. I believe it. The state has a Big Red Sub Club that routinely flies Nebraska crewmen back to the state for parades and football games. When I was in Nebraska this weekend, I was given an honorary commission in the Nebraska Admirals Association, signed by Nebraska governor Mike Johanns, for writing a book on "their" sub. I was also named an honorary "commander" in the Big Red Sub Club...