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...Blue Angels, the Navy's flashy flight-exhibition team, have thrilled spectators since 1946. Their high-speed, tight-formation flying routines, however, can exact a dear price. Some two dozen Blue Angel pilots have died in air shows or training accidents. The latest casualty is Lieut. Commander Kevin Davis, whose F/A-18 Hornet clipped a stand of pine trees before crashing into a Beaufort, S.C., residential neighborhood. The cause of the crash is unknown, but as former Blue Angels pilots have noted, such aerial acrobatics leave no room for human or mechanical error. Davis...
...skewering what he sees as the hypocrisy of U.S. politicians in dealing with China. For the sake of maintaining good trading relations, Mann argues, American leaders have ignored the inconvenient fact that China is run by a repressive, sometimes brutal regime that stands against everything they profess to hold dear: democracy, human rights and freedom. They excuse this behavior with what he calls the "soothing scenario" that China will eventually come around to sharing their values, based on the assumption that democracy is a necessary byproduct of economic development. Mann calls this the "Starbucks fallacy," a reference to New York...
...Excuse me my dear,” he said. (I’m sorry, but who the HELL calls a perfect stranger “my dear” unless it is an 80-year-old woman.) “Would you mind switching seats with me? I need to change Fanny’s diaper,” he continued...
...character stars) and their characters, including the baddies. Sure, the movie climaxes in a bloodbath, with all the perps get blown up, run over or impaled. But, and I'm not giving too much away, most of them miraculously - or, rather, very Englishly - survive. After all, in dear old Blighty, people don't die of gun violence...
...show, with lyrics by Megan L. Amram ’10 and a script by Alexandra A. Petri ’10, tells the story of an advice columnist on a quest for true love. “In passing, someone randomly suggested ‘Dear Abby–the Musical’ and the more we thought about it, the more we thought it would be really cool,” said Linden. While many past Freshman Musicals have centered on Harvard life, this year’s leaders wanted to do something different...