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...that while one is actually entertained by watching three mules dive into a 6-ft. pool, still a part of the same mind retains its distance, goes off on a private reverie in which collapsing football players shaped like refrigerators, poisoned birds, butter cows and Judge Crater, too, disappear, and one is left with what is suddenly a happy mind, a relaxed and contemplative mind--best of all, an alone mind...
Horrified controllers had watched the disabled aircraft drop to below 10,000 ft. and then, at 6:57 p.m., disappear from their radar screens altogether. The 747, still heading north rather than east, had plunged into a slope of 5,400-ft.-high Mount Osutaka, a pine-covered granite peak. Weighing more than 350 tons, the plane buried much of its fuselage in a steeply angled ridge at an altitude of 4,700 ft. Flames spurted into the sky as the impact ignited fuel tanks; even the metal scraps burned fiercely as the 747 sliced through the trees...
Nonetheless, Reagan's decision to disappear with Gorbachev for nearly an hour at the very outset came as a surprise to his advisers. As the two leaders remained behind closed doors on that first morning and their aides began a reverse countdown, ticking off how long they were exceeding their schedules, one American official came up to Shultz, nervously pointing at his watch and fretting that the Big Two were not keeping to the program. Retorted Shultz: "If you're dumb enough to go in there and break it up, you don't deserve to be employed here...
...bungling ineptitude in providing Iraqis with basic health-care essentials. After all, the U.S. Congress just gave the Bush Administration an added $82 billion to spend on the war. So now even more U.S. taxpayer money will go to Iraq reconstruction efforts, and some of it will disappear in the process. Companies like Halliburton will profit and wounded Iraqi citizens struggle to survive as overwhelmed Iraqi doctors and nurses fight to save them with outdated or inadequate medical equipment. Good luck winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi populace with such underfunded and mismanaged efforts. Eric J. Morrow North...
...then-cutting-edge IBM computer that generated random residential assignments to its nearly 1,000 freshmen. The Crimson argued that Harvard should emulate Yale’s new housing policy, so that “the stigma of not ‘getting the first choice’ would disappear, along with cliques of dissatisfied people and uneven distribution.” But in Cambridge, Masters resisted such a change...