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Said Hall: "I don't think the board wants you all to rush into anything that is unsafe. We do want you to rush into looking at the problem." In this he was supported by the sober-looking crowd at the front of the ballroom. "You look at that," said Barbara Johns, whose 18-year-old daughter Courtney was the first victim identified after the crash, "and you wonder, If these are known safety problems, why aren't they correcting them before people die? That's the answer we'd like--because people we love are still flying...
...members, Congresspeople, lobbyists, academics and law-enforcement officials. All were united by a single goal: a genuine--if also, in many cases, self-interested--desire to protect kids. Missing were the kind of sparks you'd expect when, say, representatives of the American Library Association share a drafty hotel ballroom with members of Family-Friendly Libraries. Instead, the summit percolated with a kind of pan-ideological bonhomie--as in the Crossfire green room, one imagines, but bigger and with even worse food...
Lacking answers, the summit wound down with a panel of actual children--a cute if predictable stunt. Onstage with their parents and teachers before a ballroom full of strange, faceless adults, the kids readily assured us that they do all they can to avoid naughty material on the Net. They were perhaps a bit more credible when talking about the genuine fun you can have online--a notion that may have escaped many of their listeners. The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing...
...Disney efforts. Anastasia is wandering around the old palace, beginning to have flashbacks about her regal past. She begins her solo and the audience settles back in their chairs, expecting a cheesy introspective. Suddenly, however, the cliche explodes: ghosts emerge from every corner of the palace, descend onto the ballroom floor and join in a moving and luminous spectacle...
Dudley events have included themed movie nights (back to back "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Roxanne," for instance), piano concerts, ballroom dance classes and Pub Rojo--a night of music and beer at Cafe Gato Rojo, located in the basement of Lehman Hall...