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According to Laitin, he came to Harvard "prepared to sail...
...officials appear close to resolving the crisis. The hijackers have offered to release all hostages in Istanbul in return for a Friday news conference to publicize the plight of Chechnya. Turkish officials, who say that they will not let a ship that the hijackers say is packed with explosives sail through the crowded Bosporus straits to Istanbul, have offered the port city of Eregli as an alternative site. While this hostage crisis seems headed to a peaceful end, TIME's James Wilde says that its effects will be far-reaching. "Observers here say that however it is handled, this incident...
...described his role as "acting as a bit of ballast," Murdoch also took turns at the grinder, in the galley and at the helm during the three-day race. And all this while injured. A few days before the race, Murdoch caught his right index finger between the sail and the boom and was whisked away to the hospital. A quick piece of plastic surgery later, he was fine, to the great relief of his many creditors. "I'll still be able to write checks," he joked...
...perfect world, not a single word would be uttered about O.J. Simpson ever again. No matter how wrong the verdict was, I would be perfectly content to have him sail off into the sunset and not have to think about him anymore. At best, he is a very lucky man, and at worst, he is a disgusting murderer. If all went well, he would realize that the majority of Americans will always see him as both, and he would retreat into permanent seclusion to enjoy his precious freedom...
Hardly recovered from the Tailhook scandal, the Navy set sail once again on the treacherous seas of a sexual-harassment case. In Washington, court-martial proceedings opened against Captain Everett Greene to examine charges that he wrote suggestive notes and made harassing calls to two female subordinates. He insists his messages were misconstrued. On Friday the judge dismissed one woman's allegations. At the time of the alleged incidents, Greene ran the Navy's equal-opportunity unit--which handled sex- harassment complaints...