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...come on the ship they call the Mayflower, We come on the ship that sailed the Moon, We come in the age's most uncertain hour, And sing an American tune...
Gore, meanwhile, was starting to poke holes in his own ship. In the third week of September, reporters began to challenge him on some of the anecdotes he related in his speeches, including whether the prescription drug Lodine did cost less for his dog than for his mother-in-law. Gore's sudden drift may not have been entirely coincidental. Republican message sculptor Ed Gillespie arrived in Austin to step up the attacks on the Vice President. Constantly outgunned by Gore's better tactical operation, Bush's team started working on what it called "stink bombs," or what later became...
...wrench is thrown into the works when brother Alec pays a visit from Columbia school of journalism. Full of righteous indignation at his family's assimilation, he tells them to shape up or ship out. Astonishingly enough, the United States government has just made Harry an offer to rat out Alec's African National Congress friends in exchange for a cushy job in the Netherlands. Harry has a dilemma: he knows South Africa is tearing his family apart, but his only way out is to abuse Alec's trust...
...Lloyd's of London the Lutine bell--salvaged from a wrecked Royal Navy frigate of the same name--was traditionally rung once to signify disaster and twice to herald a ship's safe return. The ritual ended in the 1980s, but if ever an excuse to revive it were needed, it came last week. After a 20-week courtroom conflict described by Justice Peter Cresswell as "the largest and most complex piece of civil litigation this jurisdiction has ever seen," Lloyd's was found not guilty of defrauding investors. A jubilant Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor refrained from giving...
...Monthly fee for a ship to be monitored by a satellite tracking system in case of piracy attack or hijack...