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...David Wolper, the man who brought America Roots, North and South, and the ceremonies for the 1984 Olympics, less is less; more is better; most is best. His script calls for the President to light the statue on the night of July 3. On July 4, tall ships will sail up the Hudson, and fireworks will turn night into day. On July 5, scholars will meet to discuss the idea of liberty, and the New York Philharmonic will play in Central Park. On July 6, the closing ceremony in New Jersey's Giants Stadium will feature more stars than there...
...decades. "There's a hunger for a little bit of formality," observes Judith Martin, who as Miss Manners writes books of spiky social advice. "It's very natural to enjoy tradition, and it was phony and unnatural when people said everything that came before me was wrong." Setting sail in the prevailing wind and recognizing that "a wedding is a wonderful place to establish a good family feud that will last twelve generations." In September, Martin will release a video, Miss Manners' Guide to a Charmingly Correct Wedding...
...graceful, two-masted vessel, just back from a 15-month European tour, had anchored briefly at the U.S. Virgin Island port of St. John, and was sailing north toward Baltimore on May 14 when the weather turned nasty. The twelve crew members shortened sail to handle the heavy winds. Suddenly, recalled First Mate John Flanagan, "a wall of wind and water" smashed into the Pride with devastating force. "In what seemed like slow motion the boat laid over to port," said Flanagan. There was no time to sound an alarm over the Pride's radio...
Undergraduates attend Navy ROTC classes for three to four hours per week, in addition to hour-long drills twice a week sometimes at 7:30 a.m. After their freshmen and junior years, midshipmen sail on month-long summer training cruises in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Atlantic, or anywhere else the Navy goes...
...didn't sail that well during the first day of competition," Harvard Captain Burnes said. "But we came together as a team and sailed better the second...