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...known as the children overboard affair. In October 2001, two days into an election campaign in which Prime Minister John Howard successfully portrayed his government as tough on border protection, ministers claimed that illegal immigrants aboard a fishing boat code-named SIEV 4 (suspected illegal entry vessel 4) had thrown children into the sea. This, government ministers suggested, was an attempt at blackmail: sailors from H.M.A.S. Adelaide, which had apprehended the vessel, would be forced to rescue the children, thus improving their families' chances of gaining entry to Australia. Defence Minister Peter Reith, citing photographic and video evidence, said...
...Being thrown together in this unique venue far away from their track-and-field teammates built an impressive camaraderie among shot putters from 44 countries, "The way they all intermingled, especially in the dining room, we'll never forget," said one coach. And whereas shot-putters often go unnoticed in the three-ring circus of most track-and-field events, at Olympia they had the 10,000-plus spectators all to the themselves. Said John Godina, one of the U.S. competitors who also suffered a disappointing finish after having been a medal favorite, "It was awesome to walk into this...
...POLITICS OF ALERTS A TIME poll shows Bush's advantage on fighting terrorism is waning and voters have other issues on their minds. But both his and Kerry's campaigns were thrown off by the alert...
Harvard kids are jerks, automatically. Not the most clear-headed thinking, but exactly the sort of reasoning that was in force on a recent trip of mine to the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. I journeyed down to West Philadelphia for a barbeque thrown by a local club-rowing program. I was expecting a relaxed evening of hamburgers, hotdogs and small talk about crew in all of its obsessive glory. What I instead got was a rather harsh lesson about the amount of bitterness, anger and envy that word “Harvard” can conjure...
...first Cummins wants the eight fishermen to retrieve their buoys and lines; Coastwatch has located the gear 9 nautical mi. away. "The lines are an environmental hazard," says Geoff Weir, a member of the boarding party. Typically, sharks caught on these lines are stripped of their fins and thrown back into the water alive. "Not only is the harvesting method wasteful," says Weir, a marine biologist by training, "but taking out the predator at the top of the food chain in such numbers messes with the sea's biodiversity...