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Headline of the day: U.S. America’s Cup team calls Alinghi skipper a liar

Friday, January 15th, 2010

From the Detroit Free Press: "Today, the Americans took the gloves off and delivered a backhanded rap across the chops when they called Swiss skipper Brad Butterworth a liar." Why would you take the gloves off and call someone a liar? Aren't you better off keeping the gloves on and slapping ...

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Megayachting: More Civilized and Fashionable Than Just Plain Old Yachting

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Tomorrow afternoon, Tom Perkins, the famed venture capitalist whose firm is responsible for funding the likes of Amazon.com, America Online, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Google, Intuit, Lotus, Macromedia, Netscape, Segway, and Sun Microsystems, plans to sail his megayacht, The Maltese Falcon, into San Francisco Bay for the first time. Why is ...

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