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Kaprow left the Navy last month after a 20-year career and visits to some 200 ships. Morale aboard the Churchill, he said, was the worst he ever saw - even on the eve of war with Saddam Hussein, when the Churchill launched Tomahawk missiles from the eastern Mediterranean toward Iraq. "I think the lady is mentally unbalanced," Kaprow said. "I don't believe she ever should have had command." (See more about the rise and fall of Holly Graf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complaints About Female 'Captain Bligh' Began Early | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...received the ball along the left sideline and took it hard to the rim where he finished with a one-handed tomahawk slam...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Seniors Honored in Win, Go Out in Style | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...highlight reel didn’t end with Lin. Sophomore wing Max Kenyi stole a pass in transition, looked over his shoulder and slammed the ball home with a one-handed tomahawk jam to seal the Harvard victory with a minute left in the game...

Author: By Evan J. Zepfel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Basketball Rolls Past Yale on Senior Night | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...some 300 years, however, sugaring stuck close by that rural idyll. Early settlers in the U.S. Northeast and Canada learned about sugar maples from Native Americans. Various legends exist to explain the initial discovery. One is that the chief of a tribe threw a tomahawk at a tree, sap ran out and his wife boiled venison in the liquid. Another version holds that Native Americans stumbled on sap running from a broken maple branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maple Syrup | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...flattery, there is shameless flattery, and there are conversations with Arianna Huffington. She'll talk to old men about their libido, beautiful women about their intelligence, the unemployed about their talent and the wealthy about their artistic depth. In her hands, a compliment is the social equivalent of a Tomahawk missile, launched in stealth at a heavily researched target and perilously difficult to defend against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arianna Huffington: The Web's New Oracle | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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