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...fact, there were some initial rough patches. Before the ship set sail, a female crew member claimed she had been sexually assaulted. After the carrier got under way, 15 women left early because they had become pregnant -- 12 before the cruise began; three during port calls, two of those with their husbands. Two women also complained that they had been sexually harassed. The Navy considered those incidents within the bounds of a successful mission, acknowledging that the integration of the sexes in such close quarters was bound to create new disciplinary dilemmas and awkward situations...
Ellroy, 47, is a 6-ft. 2-in. walking testimonial to the redeeming power of reading and writing fiction; his life has been, in patches, as rough and messy as many of the scenes in his books. His parents divorced when he was six, and he shuttled between them for four years until his mother, a registered nurse and an alcoholic, was found murdered near a high school playground in a small town east of Los Angeles. "At the time, my bereavement was ambiguous," Ellroy says. "My mother was a volatile woman, and I thought she'd been mean...
After hitting rough water with a tenth place finish at St. Mary's, the women sailers hiked back to capture the second and sixth places in its next challenge at Boston University...
...whole scene is overtly sentimental, but Grady's emotion is described unselfconsciously so that we don't resist it: "I was seized with a powerful longing to put my arms around [Irv], to brush his rough cheek against mine, to sit down and eat the bread of affliction with him and with Emily and with all of the Warshaws. They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could...
...originators stress that this is the firstyear of the program, and that its long-term formatmay be very different, "This is a pilot year. Wewant to make it very clear that it is the firsttime. There are rough spots. We just want to havefun doing it," said Symonds...