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...their strawberry-covered cheesecake. Blanchard said he had seen a cadet's fiance wearing a brooch featuring maritime signal flags. Blanchard's joke: "She said the flags meant, 'I love you.' They really said, 'Permission granted to lay alongside.'" Then Blanchard offered one about his old buddy, Captain Patrick Stillman, the commandant of cadets. On Stillman's wedding night, Blanchard said, the captain told his bride she could do anything she wanted. "So she immediately went to sleep," he said. Finally there was the one about the cadet who wondered why his fiance was wolfing down a costly meal...
School officials and cadets, including many of the 25 women who had been present, complained about Blanchard's poor taste. Three days after the dinner, Stillman called Blanchard to express formally the academy's displeasure. Within hours, Blanchard faxed a letter of apology to the academy, where he taught political science from 1977 to 1981. "Us old sea dogs need to adapt," he conceded, "and change the way we have always done things." With the letter, Blanchard and Stillman thought the subject was closed...
Such hymns to synergy grate on the loose coalition of consumer advocates, labor and industry groups fighting the merger. "The industry is moving in the exact opposite direction of competition," fumes Bradley Stillman of the Consumer Federation of America. He may not be factoring in the World Wide Web, the information network that links computers and perhaps eventually phones and televisions. Bell Atlantic, says Smith, will offer Internet access and Web-based software even as it fights for long-distance, cellular and wireless turf. "This is not going to be a fight over plain old telephones," he vows...
...Stillman Infirmary on the fifth floor of University Health Services (UHS) in Holyoke Center reopened this week after a three-month renovation...
...During Stillman Infirmary's three-month renovation period, its staff relocated to Mt. Auburn Hospital...