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WASHINGTON, D.C.: An Air Force inquiry has concluded that the April 3 crash of Secretary Ron Brown's plane in Croatia was the result of "failure of command, aircrew error and an improperly-designed instrument approach procedure." In a 22-volume, 7,000 page report, investigators concluded that all three factors were necessary for the accident to occur. The report said the plane should never have been allowed to land at Dubrovnik, because it was not equipped to handle the airport's 1930's-era navigational landing system. In addition, the pilots were not properly trained for landing at civilian...
...only taken one course in organizational behavior...so as far as I was concerned, I was on virgin territory," he says. "So I relied basically on listening. I just listened to many people and tried to extract the main principles. I [worked according to] trial and error, and through the advice of [Professor] Hackman, I was able to minimize the errors and improve the organization." Ben-Shachar's conclusions yielded "substantial changes" in the organization and, he says, "they were successful...
...were surprised to find a sketch of a Wellesley undergraduate misnamed 'A Radcliffe Girl,'" they wrote. "We realize of course this is a typographical error...
...from Winthrop House made a two-hour call to his girl-friend in California," reported The Crimson. Total expenses were more than $10,000 before the phone company caught the error...
Perhaps the biggest investor error, says Jamie Kiggen, a managing director and Internet analyst at Bear Stearns, is overconfidence. "Many investors fall into the trap of thinking that technology somehow makes them invulnerable or wiser. Nothing could be further from the truth," she says...