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Stung by criticism that he doesn’t care about black people, President Bush resolved to spend like drunken sailor, promising New Orleans “one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen” along with a blank check. The government will spend “whatever it takes” to rebuild New Orleans and Gulf Coast reconstruction will “cost whatever it costs...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski, | Title: Hey, Big Spender | 10/5/2005 | See Source »

...Rushing thinks part of his mission is to educate the American public on the reality of war. "War in America has its own branding-it's the American flag, it's that Lee Greenwood song, it's a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square. But Americans need to be aware of the consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Jazeera Hires an Ex-Marine | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

...Typically we don’t do the sloop championship. We’ve tried to qualify a few times in the past, but Vinny’s a pretty good sloop sailor and in his senior year, we wanted to try something else,” Johnson said. “Vinny skippers in a sloop, I crew on bigger boats, Matt and Robbie can crew, so we have all the pieces there, but we’ve never put it together before...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Qualifies for Nationals | 9/20/2005 | See Source »

...astonishing that even today the U.S. Immigration Service has no uniform policy for handling defections like that of Sailor Medvid. In light of U.S. incompetence at the lowest level, what hope can there be for success at the nation's highest echelons? Heinz Dieter Chiba Montreal Ransoming Relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Grant (Tell Me a Riddle), were cowed with tough-guy analogies: a director must be a field marshal, a quarterback, a boardroom Svengali. "This producer asked me, 'But can you be the captain of a ship?' I was taken aback at the Captain Ahab image of dealing with sailors in a muscular world. Everyone can be a different kind of captain on a different kind of ship and bring in different kinds of results. You do have to be a damned good sailor, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Calling Their Own Shots | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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