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...storm-tossed landing was a disaster. The plane skidded wildly, at one point rotating 150[degrees]. It slid off the end of the runway, broadsiding a steel tower that held landing lights. When the plane finally came to rest on a bank of the Arkansas River, it had split in three, and a fire had broken out near its left wing. As it erupted in flames, passengers fled for their lives. Nine people, including veteran pilot Captain Richard Buschmann, died--the first fatalities on a major U.S. airline in nearly a year and a half--and 83 were injured...
...After a pair of tough defeats at Rutgers, the Crimson faced undefeated Cornell late in April. The situation was simple: Harvard needed to sweep Cornell to secure the Ivy League title. With each team only having lowly Dartmouth left on its schedule, even a split would cost Harvard the championship...
...split between the two movements was first clear at the March 9 Rally for Justice outside of University Hall, in which SAS and the Living Wage Campaign, along with the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, united in their call for Faculty support...
...long time coming and, we feel, overdue. When the women's college ceded direct responsibility for female undergraduates to Harvard in 1977, its role became hazy and somewhat peripheral in the minds of many students. Last year, a debate over women's diplomas revealed a student body split and uncertain over the role of Radcliffe in their lives--some felt it crucial to have Radcliffe's seal and the signature of Wilson on their diplomas, while others felt the inclusion was an inaccurate reflection of an education fostered entirely by Harvard...
...They could have split the million dollarsamong the students and gotten some really nicefeedback," Chan jokes