Word: piloting
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Scott A. Gunn '01, who has wanted to be a pilot ever since seeing the movie Top Gun as a child, will be commander of the unit beginning in the fall...
Gunn, an applied math concentrator, who joined ROTC during the second semester of his first year at Harvard, will find out today whether he has been selected to enter training as a fighter pilot...
This battle for students has had a bracing effect on public school systems. In Boston, a hotbed of for-profit schooling, the city has responded by launching 11 pilot schools to test innovative curriculums. "We want children to be educated in the best environment," says Albert Holland, a Boston public school official. "We don't mind the competition...
Titus (debuts march 20, 8:30 p.m. E.T., Fox) may have the most jarring laugh track in TV history. In the pilot alone, Christopher Titus (as himself) gets decked by his drunken dad Ken, announces that his mom is clinically insane, and lurks outside a room that just may contain pop's corpse--all to the same sort of yuks as when the sassy blind guy gets off a zinger on Becker...
...Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding, and like many stand-ups turned TV stars, he's a limited actor. But the buff, brush-cut Titus has more to offer than affable my-wife-won't-have-sex-with-me jokes; his every sarcasm and tic betrays an intense, coiled anger. The pilot--in which he and his brother confront their father's possible suicide (Dad's been in his room four days without getting a beer)--is a brutal, hilarious and audacious set piece. (Which makes later episodes' juvenile sex-'n'-insult humor all the more regrettable.) Ken, played by a gruff...