Word: sea
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...time he came out of his Hanoi prison, John McCain had learned the power of stories. He had been raised on them. The son and grandson of admirals forever at sea, he had spent more time with their legends than with the men themselves. Among the POWs, he was the prison storyteller, the one who helped pass the days by retelling, scene by scene, his favorite Marlon Brando movies, who offered a course he called A History of the World from the Beginning, the one who was allowed 10 minutes with a Bible one Christmas so he could refresh...
...father had held 20 years before, as the Navy's liaison to the Senate. In this last role, the road forked. Even as he took that job, it was clear that his Navy career was stalled. His war injuries were still bad enough to rule out a sea command. It had taken years of physical therapy for him to be able to bend his knee again, and to this day he can't raise either arm above his head. Though his father and grandfather had been the only father-and-son four-star admirals in U.S. history, McCain was passed...
...states and localities to boycott companies that do business in Burma, now called Myanmar, which is one of Asia's most saw-toothed dictatorships. But the U.S. State Department sees such boycotts as a violation of federal sovereignty and free trade. Then there are the environmentalists. To protect sea turtles, an endangered species, they want an import ban on shrimp caught in nets that don't have escape hatches to let the turtles swim away. Congress has adopted such a ban, but the WTO forbids it; member nations can't block imports on the basis of the way they...
...personalities. Could it be a coincidence that vice presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03, a member of the Harvard crew team, announced his intention to end Harvard's "sink or swim" atmosphere? The audience could hear the emotion in his voice as he promised to make Harvard into "a sea with a coast guard." Clearly, Wikler wanted us to draw the conclusion that only he, a Crew team member, could fill the position of a coast guard...
...Amidst a sea of campaign supporters--some sporting yellow bandanas in solidarity with their candidates--contenders for the Undergraduate Council's presidency and vice presidency held forth on old-standby issues of student voice and council legitimacylast night...