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...piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 9]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed up behind them, the doors...
...piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 9]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed up behind them, the doors...
...city of Cambridge, Harvard’s other, longer term development project across the river in Allston is faced with the sometimes exorbitant demands of the city planning bureaucracy and the broader Allston community. No matter how excessive the demands of Allston residents may seem, however, Harvard should always err on the side of generosity, not only to preserve the best possible relationship with the Allston community, but because, as the world’s richest university, we can afford to undertake the responsibilities to be an exemplary neighbor...
Back in Amendolara, Melfi doesn't claim to have the magic solution. "I make 100 errors a day," the mayor says. "But I know that if I hadn't made any mistakes I wouldn't have accomplished anything at all." Italy needs more leaders willing to err in the pursuit of the public good, and citizens who learn to discard - and not recycle - those whose sole ambition is to cling to power...
Golf, being a Scottish game, is steeped in Calvinist notions of sin and salvation. At most championship courses, a graceful swing from the tee will find the fairway, but when golfers err from the straight and narrow, they find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is different: being in Southern Baptist country, it gives golfers the benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick...