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EVER SINCE THE LOADED SUPERTANKER UNDER HIS command foundered on Bligh Reef in April 1989 and unleashed an 11 million-gal. spill of Alaskan crude oil into Prince William Sound, Skipper Joseph Hazelwood has been a marked man. Last week, when the Maritime College of the State University of New York announced that it had hired Hazelwood to help teach cadets how to stand watch, environmental groups were quick to remonstrate. "This is truly amazing," said the Sierra Club...
...very easy flirting with a facebook," said another first-year. "There aren't any casual social gatherings and you can't just spill cereal on her lap in the Union either...
...strayed into the sights of such heavy artillery. The next day Charles Anson, the Queen's press secretary and the source of some of the vitriol, issued an extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, public apology to the monarch and Fergie. Anson was not the only insider to spill venom, but he accepted "full responsibility" for what some people had begun to call the "Mean Queen Machine." The next step in damage control was to negotiate a deal with the departing duchess: a possible $4 million-plus settlement, along with retention of a noble "courtesy title," in exchange for her keeping mum about...
...time he was 30 and a fast-tracker at ABC. His premature baldness and stark visage gave him the look of an Edsel with the top down. And he already possessed that icy stare that made him, according to one Hollywood wit, "the last person you'd want to spill a drink on at a cocktail party." These, and a great gut for pop culture, served him well as chairman of Paramount Pictures from 1974 to '84, when it produced golden-calf movies (Grease, Flashdance) and cash-cow TV series (Taxi, Cheers). Then he took over 20th Century Fox, where...
...unusually large enrollment in a Core course can have a very significant and unpredictable spill-over effect in the enrollment in concentration courses," Pilbeam says...