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Just last month Lewis Jordan, president of ValuJet Airlines, tried his best to ease concerns over whether his fast-growing no-frills airline was just as safe as any other. "ValuJet has never experienced a fatality," he said. On Saturday, however, he had the grim duty of announcing that a ValuJet DC-9 carrying 104 passengers and five crew members had plunged into the Everglades while trying to return to Miami International Airport, killing everyone aboard. The accident, in the midst of a 120-day surveillance of the airline's operations by the Federal Aviation Administration, seemed certain to increase...
...three days, Susan and Anthony Provenzino sat grim-faced in the paneled courtroom of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, their emotions ricocheting between anger, bewilderment and remorse as they pleaded for understanding. Pressed by city attorney Robert Ihrie to explain why they had supported the release of their son Alex, 16, from juvenile custody last summer, even though he had committed several burglaries and attacked his father with a golf club, Susan snapped, "I didn't want him in a youth home with murderers and rapists." Had she sought counseling for Alex? "I couldn't force him to go," Susan said...
...morning after the crash, U.S. Army Brigadier General Michael Canavan phoned from Dubrovnik to inform Harold Ickes, Clinton's deputy chief of staff, that Brown's body had finally been identified. Famous for his steeliness, Ickes opened the 8:30 a.m. White House staff meeting with the grim news, then issued a call for business as usual. But within minutes he had turned the meeting into an impromptu wake, with staff members swapping fond anecdotes and roguish tales, all of them rich in laughter and full of deep pride in Brown. Even Ickes told...
Daryn H. David '99 was grim when her Expository Writing 11: "Tragic Justice" preceptor told her class to write a Greek trilogy over spring break...
...imagine many people in England trying to reassure one another with such thoughts as they read increasingly grim speculation about the pigeons in the morning papers. "Don't look so glum, Alfie," Alfie's wife says, as she puts the eggs and grilled tomato and thick-cut bacon in front of him. "Maybe this was some nice gentleman who has a home for older pigeons in a lovely part of Sussex where they don't have to be around those nasty foreigners...