Word: crashes
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...Plane crash on resort island kills at least...
...that Americans would consider not giving some formal recognition to 9/11. We should support the courage and patriotism that our fellow Americans showed that day six years ago. Thousands of people died in the biggest attack on our soil. Passengers on one of the planes were courageous enough to crash the plane, killing themselves but preventing even more deaths. As a proud American, I will always remember the people who died that day, and I will continue to wear red, white and blue every Sept. 11 for the rest of my life...
...potential for impact. The unemployed in that war-battered wedge of Palestine is by some counts 70% of the adult population. Mohammad Naja, a management consultant who runs the foundation's program there, says university students "learn theory, not practical application." To address this gap, foundation students undergo a crash course in business English, then a mini-M.B.A. boot camp devised by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business that places them in real-life business situations in which, for instance, accounting graduates perform simulated audits...
...really, all it takes is a little bit of effort. When my friends came to visit freshman year, I slept on the La-Z-Boy and let them take my bed. My friends usually return the favor, too—when I come to visit and need to crash on a couch or a floor, they’re there...
...That theme, however, is at first artfully disguised in the film, which was written and directed by Paul Haggis, prime author of Crash as well as the writer or co-writer of such excellent Clint Eastwood screenplays as Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima. Haggis is a man with a gritty, honest sensibility, particularly attuned to life as it's lived in our country at the lower edges of society. But he's also a pretty canny movie guy, initially presenting his material as a fairly conventional mystery, with the icily contained and taciturn Hank...