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...witnesses at last month's court of inquiry into the sinking of the Japanese ship has now been handed to Admiral Thomas Fargo, chief of the Pacific Fleet. On the basis of their report, Fargo must decide whether to submit Waddle to a court-martial or give him some lesser form of Navy punishment. One possibility: an administrative proceeding known as an admiral's mast, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 days of confinement to quarters, 60 days of restricted duty and forfeiture of a month's pay. At the inquiry, Waddle was informed he was suspected of dereliction...
...concerned with lesser known writers and authors who have only recently begun to get attention," Donoghue said...
...TIME.com: What, exactly, is the difference between a court-martial and the lesser punishment Admiral Fargo has reportedly decided upon...
...much of what makes Gilbert & Sullivan entertaining, semester after semester after semester after semester (you get the idea), is the richness of commentary and satire found in all of their work. And this production of Utopia, Ltd. (one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s lesser known works), manages to work very well with the material provided. Half of the humor is from the absurdity of situations like despotism tempered by dynamite or governance transformed into limited liability. But the other half comes from the sneaking suspicion in the audience that there is some bit of truth reflected in such...
...When we play against good teams, we play our best, but we've played inconsistently against lesser teams," Harper said...