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...adventure this summer has been learning to sail, right here in Boston. While biking along the Charles last year, I discovered Community Boating Inc. (CBI) just beyond the Hatch Shell, where for an affordable price they will make you into a sailor...
...signed up for sailing the first week of the summer. I expected to be shepherded through the learning process, taking baby steps until I would finally be ready to take a boat out alone. Little did I know that CBI preferred trial by fire. All I had to do in order to take a boat out alone was attend two onshore classes—one that taught me the theory behind sailing, and the other that taught me to put the sail up before taking off. Once I demonstrated that I could spit out what they told...
...soulless building where Isabella Rossellini was kept in Blue Velvet; the images of secret lovemaking on dank and silent Washington summer evenings; new old girlfriends turning up on a weekly basis, talking of being told not to talk. One could swim down into this stuff or pretend to sail above it (as this paragraph somewhat does) and swim while sailing...
Monday afternoon Robert Mueller began the first round of his confirmation hearings with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mueller, nominated to replace Louis Freeh as the top dog at the FBI, is widely expected to sail through the hearings; some insiders predict he?ll wrap up the vote by the end of the week...
...voyage, by the time a few men from his fleet finally made the pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site, Zheng He had died. Both his father and grandfather had made the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca overland all the way from southwestern China long before their illustrious offspring ever set sail...