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...grabbed her cowering navigator and pulled him onto the outdoor bridge wing. "Did you run my f___ing ship aground?" she screamed. Not only was this a possible naval disaster, but it was a diplomatic one as well: the navigator was an officer in the British Royal Navy, a billet unique to the Churchill. (See "The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh...
...people think these Cadillac plans are primarily covering wealthy executives, they are mistaken," says Tom Billet, a senior health-benefits consultant for Watson Wyatt, a corporate consulting firm. In reality, many more of the most expensive employer-based health-insurance plans cover people like the families of New Hampshire state employees who, according to the Boston Globe, have policies worth $20,400 per year. (The employee contribution is $60 per month...
...whereabouts. The really big news is that the third in line to Britain's throne says he doesn't like his own country that much. Yet look at the pictures of the prince on active service, and it's easy to see why Harry might prefer his hard army billet to the comforts of a palace bed. Dressed in camouflage, his pale skin burned as ruddy as his hair, the prince for the first time in his life was almost invisible, blending into the bleak desert landscape with its rich palette of colors - any shade, as long...
Guarding the thousands of detainees sent to Abu Ghraib by coalition forces across Iraq was a nasty billet for the 800th Military Police Brigade, which includes the reserve 372nd Military Police Company, and the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, which also operated there. A senior military official who lived at Abu Ghraib says soldiers were underequipped and undermanned. The reservists in particular had virtually no training for their prison-guard jobs. Discipline flagged. In November and December, around the time most of the abuse photos were taken, Abu Ghraib was under constant attack from nightly mortar raids. Basic sanitation...
...TIME. (The e-mails have attracted the interest of federal investigators already looking into whether Abramoff defrauded his Indian clients--a charge he denies.) Ten days after 9/11, for instance, Abramoff was promoting a business venture to rent cruise ships to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to billet rescue workers off New York City. Reed assured Abramoff he had "put in a tag call to karl to find out the best contact at fema." Four months later, Abramoff wrote Reed that he needed some "serious swat from Karl" to get the Justice Department to free $16.3 million...