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DIED. Gary Comer, 78, philanthropist and entrepreneur who founded the mail-order giant Lands' End; in Chicago. With an emphasis on sturdy products (famously sold as "Guaranteed. Period") and a clever, anecdote-filled "magalog," the world-class sailor turned a small sailboat- hardware business into a $1.9 billion clothing company before selling it in 2002. Downplaying his savvy, he said, "I picked things I liked, and over the years people interested in the same things gathered around...
Students seeking to be “strong to the finich” like Popeye the Sailor Man by eating their spinach are going to have to find an alternative source of iron...
What's going on? The two orders offered tantalizing clues. There are only a few places in the world where minesweepers top the list of U.S. naval requirements. And every sailor, petroleum engineer and hedge-fund manager knows the name of the most important: the Strait of Hormuz, the 20-mile-wide bottleneck in the Persian Gulf through which roughly 40% of the world's oil needs to pass each day. Coupled with the CNO's request for a blockade review, a deployment of minesweepers to the west coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed...
...emails about teaching SAT’s in South Korea will finally have some purpose!). Now you think your calling is to devote yourself to studying East Asia. Ni-hao and Konnichiwa. Take a seat next to the idiot who’s here because he enjoys watching Sailor Moon and wants to write his thesis on why possessing a tamagotchi and liking szechuan chicken gives him the right to stake his claim as an EAS scholar. Lucky for you, despite the bevy of unavoidable but surmountable requirements, the East Asian Studies department is a pretty kick-ass place...
DIED. June Allyson, 88, wholesome, gravel-voiced actress dubbed the "girl next door" for her frequent turns in the '40s and '50s as the loyal, adoring girlfriend or wife in such films as Two Girls and a Sailor, with Van Johnson, and The Glenn Miller Story, opposite Jimmy Stewart; in Ojai, Calif. Allyson was upbeat about her Hollywood reputation, but it doomed her efforts to take on grittier roles. The Shrike (1955), in which she played a harsh wife who drives her husband mad, was a flop. But she claimed she couldn't live up to the hype. "In real...