Word: second-in-command
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Like many politicians and privileged sons of his era, Forbes avoided the major conflict of his generation, the Vietnam War, by enlisting in the National Guard. His idea of cultural rebellion was to decline to join one of Princeton's exclusive eating clubs. As second-in-command at his family's publishing empire, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, Forbes did not act on suggestions that his father, widely rumored to be bisexual, had propositioned male employees. When two squabbling secretaries did not want to work side by side in his outer office, his solution was to build...
...Castrellon and rented a three-story house in the Lima suburb of La Molina. She registered as a journalist, and her neighbors knew her only as a quiet gringa with a radiant smile. Berenson and Castrellon, Peruvian police say, were sent together to Peru to meet Miguel Rincon, second-in-command of the MRTA. Castrellon and Rincon, investigators told journalists, both have implicated Berenson. Castrellon says he and Berenson smuggled arms to the guerrillas through Central America; Rincon names her as his "foreign collaborator" in MRTA activities...
DIED. LAURENCE MCKINLEY GOULD, 98, geologist; in Tucson, Arizona. From 1928 to 1930, Gould trekked across part of Antarctica as second-in-command to Richard Byrd on Byrd's first expedition to the continent. Today maps of Antarctica are replete with Gould's name: Mount Gould, Gould Bay, Gould Glacier, Gould Coast...
Politicians from both Catholic and Protestant communities hedge their condemnations of this violence. "We are opposed to punishment beatings, and will not condone them," says Martin McGuinness, second-in-command of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing. "But the reality is that the community is demanding action against criminals." Even the police admit the vigilantes have a measure of popular support. Crime is a growing worry in some neighborhoods of Belfast and other cities, and citizens are unwilling to turn to the police, who are deeply distrusted. "There is no doubt that some people -- not the majority -- approve...
Despite the end-of-season flameout, the 1994 season was full of positive. Harvard had a junior quarter back in control of the offense (Ferrara ) and sophomore second-in-command (Hu). The Crimson prominently featured freshmen Colby Skelton, Jeff Compas and Jason Huse...