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USAir Flight 1016, carrying 55 people, crashed early Saturday evening while trying to land at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in a storm. At least 18 people were confirmed dead, and witnesses reported numerous injuries. The DC-9 jet, en route from Columbia, S.C., struck trees and telephone poles before hitting a house...
Coming into the spring campaign Harvard had proved it could complete successfully on a regional and national level. The Crimson won the fall ECAC Team Championships, soundly defeating four rivals en route to the title, and raised more than a few eyebrows when it defeated fifteenth-ranked Texas Christian and ninth-ranked Louisiana State at the national indoor championships this spring...
Aram H. Hatch Jr. '44-'43 will never forget the greeting his sergeant gave him when he reported for duty to a Texas army base, en route to service in Okinawa, Japan...
Tarantino's guilty secret, which the international critics should have noticed, is that his films are cultural hybrids. The blood and gore, the cheeky patter, the taunting mise-en-scene are all very American -- the old studios at their snazziest. But Tarantino's hard guys also reflect a European sensibility, reminiscent of the existential gangster films of Jean-Pierre Melville; they talk all night about everything except what matters. With this marriage of Hollywood and the Continent, Pulp Fiction, which will open in the U.S. this fall, showed Cannes that the power of movies is all about energy, visual...
...months later, German and Saudi officials detained a German-registered ship, the Asian Senator, as it steamed past a Saudi port en route to Beirut. On board, they seized two containers of Chinese-produced ammonium perchlorate, an essential ingredient for solid-fuel rockets and ballistic missiles. Though the ostensible destination was Lebanon, U.N. monitors and U.S. officials confirmed that the real end user was Iraq's long-range missile program...