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Even with the challenger series to decide who will race Team New Zealand for the big prize still four months away, a brouhaha surrounding French challenger Le D?fi and its main sponsor Areva, a nuclear energy company, already has the yachting world abuzz. Yachting purists complain that nuclear power and wind power go together about as well as oil and water. New Zealand sailors are particularly incensed because the America's Cup village in Auckland, where the competition is based, is just meters away from where French secret agents blew up Greenpeace's protest ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. When...
Perhaps. But his faith in WorldCom was and is classic Ebbers, and many individual shareholders find it endearing. To hold on to more of his WorldCom stock, he recently sold a favorite toy: a 60-ft. yacht he had named Aquasition. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/Ocean Springs
...instantly became one of Hollywood's great scandals--the mysterious death of Thomas Ince during a cruise on William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924. Officially he died of natural causes, but rumor had Hearst murdering him. This film opts for the juicier tale. It has a lovely performance by Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies, Hearst's beloved mistress; she makes us see why someone might kill to keep her love. But the rest of the boaters (including Charlie Chaplin) are presented as idiot farceurs. The result is tiresome and tone-deaf and a disappointing comeback for Bogdanovich...
...outside world.” Second, students could get firmly behind the proposal to list the average grade for every course on their transcripts. Third, students could recognize that they can either do outstanding academic work or engage in more extracurricular activities than a yacht-load of Congressmen, but probably not both. Harvard students are incredibly bright, but there is only so much time, energy and attention to go around...
...Eight vessels in the Clipper 2002 round-the-world yacht race set sail from Liverpool, England (27) to return 56,000 km later in Sept...