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...warships, concentrate the fleet--were primitive until the late 1880s, when he was introduced to one of the greatest luminaries of naval thought, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan. At the time of their first meeting, Mahan, then in his late 40s, was giving lectures at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., lectures that would culminate in the 1890 publication of his international best seller, The Influence of Sea Power upon History...
...failure after an extended battle with multiple myeloma, he left a lasting legacy in the art world by supporting the creation of the Vietnam, Korean, and World War II memorials, and by raising the prominence of the National Gallery of Art.Born in 1934, Brown lived in Providence and later Newport, R.I. with his family, which had been influential even before the Revolutionary War. During his time in boarding school, Brown described himself as “hopeless.” “I was very unathletic, and when I was in school, I was two years younger than everybody...
...Direction Home makes much of the aggrieved reaction to Dylan's going electric: to the howls of the faithful when he sang "Maggie's Farm" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. (They should've listened to the lyrics, if they could've heard them: "Well, I try my best to be just like I am, / But everybody wants you to be just like them.") In Britain the following year he was greeted with screams of "Traitor!", Judas!"and "How about switching it off?" Backstage, the burnt-out singer vowed, "I'm gonna get me a new Bob Dylan...
...would the U.S. military interact with non-governmental organizations if American troops staged a humanitarian intervention in Sudan next year? That question was the focus of seminars at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., attended by six Harvard undergraduates this past Friday. The students, along with five fellows from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, toured the college as part of the center’s “Military and American Democracy” study group. The trip, co-sponsored by the International Relations Council, served as a “capstone event for our seminar...
...when he worked in the George H.W. Bush administration: He began his journalism career as an editorial writer at the Greensboro Record in Greensboro, N.C., in 1979, then was an editorial writer at the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk from 1981-82, editorial page editor of the Daily Press in Newport News, Va., from 1982-84, deputy editorial page editor of the Detroit News, which at the time was known for having one of the most conservative editorial pages of any metropolitan dailies in the country, from 1984-87; then became editorial page editor of the Washington Times, which received local...