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...then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster courage. At one point, the water rose to stomach level. (All were safely rescued by helicopter and boat on Thursday morning.) Also stranded were 167 people aboard the Kaiwo Maru, a sail-powered merchant-marine training ship that ran aground in the waters off Toyama, 255 km northwest of Tokyo. Awaiting rescue, some of the midshipmen dangled dramatically from the masts of the vessel...
...nation will have the chance to jockey for position in Laser-class dinghies for the Collegiate Singlehanded National Championships. Thanks to results from this weekend’s New England Singlehanded Qualifiers, two of those matching finely honed skill and sheer athleticism with the best in the nation will sail under a Crimson aegis...
Kovacs was part of a Harvard squad that finished eighth in simply atrocious conditions that cancelled the action on Saturday. The conditions were even worse on the day the teams did sail all of five races. Wind speeds reached 30 knots...
...July, Polet, 49, became CEO of Gucci Group, the world's third largest luxury conglomerate. He comes from an unlikely place--Unilever, where he was head of the frozen food and ice cream division--and has a tough mandate: sail Gucci, fix Yves Saint Laurent (where losses widened to $135 million in 2003) and mesh both of them with half a dozen younger businesses into a profitable whole. Here Polet talks with Sarah Raper Larenaudie about barnstorming Gucci facilities to meet and greet--and reassure...
...women," Odette Santos, a Communist Party parliamentary deputy who is sponsoring a new bill to legalize abortion, told TIME. Santos does not expect her bill to pass, or any real change to take place until after parliamentary elections in 2006. But at least the Borndiep let the debate set sail...