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True Scotch drinkers tend to relish Islay's often difficult flavors: seaweed, salt water, cigar smoke and that lovely aroma that comes from toasting the soon-to-be-fermented barley over a peat fire. In high season--spring and summer, when the weather is more agreeable--whisky pilgrims can be found hopping from one distillery to another, tasting and learning about their favorite spirit...
Among the various professional security firms, none is as renowned as Blackwater USA. Based in Moyock, N.C., the firm gets its name from the covert missions undertaken by divers at night and from the peat-colored water common to the area. It was founded in 1996 by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince, who saw a growing need for private security work by governments overseas and private firms. Since then, the company has trained more than 50,000 military and law-enforcement personnel just south of the Virginia border, near Norfolk, at its 6,000-acre facility, which it calls...
...honor in each of the past three seasons. The nation’s best team earned the title in the American Women's College Hockey Alliance National Championship during the three years before UMD’s three-peat...
...second time in just a few weeks, the Harvard women’s basketball team was denied a chance at a three-peat...
...course, this cool demeanor fits a man who has already won the EIWA championship—twice. This third trip to the podium set a record for the Crimson program, which has never had a three-peat league champion or sent some to the NCAA tournament on four occasions...