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Fair enough, it was mainly a symbolic victory. The House of Commons probably could have defeated the Lords without us, but we did manage to edge out two boats piloted by the peers, despite getting caught around a buoy and running aground, again. At the end of the race we hadn't capsized, we hadn't come in dead last, and while my boss now knew that I could swear like a sailor, he hadn't fired...
Yvena Rhinvil, the mother of Marc, 10, and Germanie, 8, was among the thousands of Haitians desperate to leave her beleaguered country. On New Year's Eve they boarded a boat for the U.S. with more than 400 other migrants. When the craft ran aground off the coast of Florida, Yvena was hospitalized for exhaustion; her children were shipped back to Haiti. The episode drew cries of protest from advocates for Haitian refugees, who pointed out the cruel contrast in the way those who flee Haiti and Cuba are treated. After widespread criticism, the Immigration and Naturalization Service brought...
...served on four different ships from 1983 to 1994, including an 18-month stint as a commander of a salvage ship. Onshore she earned a master's degree in education from Stanford. Still, by the early 1990s she was beginning to be worried that her career had run aground. "I'm a dinosaur," she remembers thinking, "because the combatant ships aren't open to women." That changed in 1993, when Congress made warships--with the still notable exception of submarines--accessible to women. With that prospect in view, McGrath stayed with the service and paid her dues, serving two years...
...with ordinary folks, they risk sounding like George Will when he writes about baseball. But this exhibit is an indicator of a real impulse in the art world lately to find vitality wherever it's to be found, now that the energies that moved modernism have long ago run aground. Perhaps for the first time in history, it's truly possible to ask an essential question: Can you take seriously an artist who illustrated 50 years of the Boy Scout calendar...
...fields at Prudhoe Bay lie beneath an area of awesome beauty, still pristine and fragile. But around 750 miles to the south lies Prince William Sound, the site of one of the world's worst oil-spill disasters a decade ago when the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and dumped 11 million gallons of syrupy crude, creating a 500-mi.-long oil slick. Since BP Amoco is the largest oil producer in the region, it's not surprising that environmental activists closely monitor its oil-exploration operations there. Last year Paul Wenman spent several weeks trudging around the Alaskan tundra...