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Tulloch is the only sailor heading South who has already competed this spring, having participated in the Harvard co-eds’ second-place finish at the Brown Team Racing Invitational last weekend...

Author: By Alexander C. Britell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 3 Women's Sailing Heads to Navy | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

...Right now, I’m particularly concerned with Old Dominion,” Tulloch said. “There’s a girl on their team [Anna Tunniclife] who is in the running for national college sailor of the year. Beating her is always good...

Author: By Alexander C. Britell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 3 Women's Sailing Heads to Navy | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

...Every sailor who served under Lieutenant John Kerry on Swift boats PCF-44 and PCF-94 have gushed about his poise under enemy fire. They tell stories of his rescuing a Green Beret from drowning, killing a Viet Cong sniper, and saving 42 Vietnamese civilians from starvation. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway they claim that in combat Kerry exemplified ?grace under pressure.? But PCF-44 Gunner?s Mate Stephen M. Gardner-in a long telephone interview from his home in Clover, South Carolina-has a starkly different memory. ?Kerry was chickenshit,? he insists. ?Whenever a firefight started he always pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...former U.S. Navy commander of the U.S.S. Pueblo, whose crew was held captive by North Korea for 11 months in 1968; in San Diego. The Pueblo was in international waters off the coast of North Korea when it was surrounded and fired on by North Korean torpedo boats; one sailor was killed and 10 wounded, including Bucher. After giving up without resisting, Bucher and the crew spent nearly a year in harsh captivity before a negotiated settlement brought them home. A Navy court later recommended that Bucher be court-martialed for surrendering the ship without firing a shot, but Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 9, 2004 | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...case against Greenpeace is hardly clear-cut either. The attorney general is prosecuting the organization under an obscure 1872 law—last enforced in 1890—that was intended for “sailor-mongers,” who lured ships’ crews ashore to shady bars and brothels. But you can hardly blame him. How many good sailors must environmental activists lead astray before the attorney general takes a stand...

Author: By Sasha Post, | Title: Dissent Mongers | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

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