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Once a crush begins, it's very hard to reverse the flow. So it's essential that event organizers preserve enough space anywhere the crowd may flow. At Hillsborough Stadium in the U.K. in 1989, a terrace became packed with fans, causing a railing to give way. In all, 96 people died. On the terrace, there were 8.4 people per square meter, according to studies of photographs taken before the railing collapsed...
...They're the types who listen when E.F. Hutton talks. They appreciate Romney's businesslike approach, even his deft way with a slide. "I thought he did a good job with the PowerPoint," Sue Pease, president-elect of the Manchester Rotary Club, said afterwards. Ken Perks, a prosecutor in Hillsborough, reviewed the performance with a sentence that could be cut from a Romney endorsement: "I think we need the kind of analysis that is used in business more than in politics...
...fans of the Italian team Juventus were killed. It would be five years before English teams were allowed to play again in European competitions. Back home, aging stadiums offered neither comfort nor safety; in 1989, 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death on an over-crowded terrace at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. Financially, too, the game was a mess. Most top-flight team owners poured money into their local team in the hope of boosting their social standing, not its bottom line. Even Manchester United, English football's most successful team in the last decade, was led through much...
...1990s brought change. The official report into the carnage at Hillsborough mandated that top grounds had to be all seated by mid-1994; the government even offered millions of pounds to help pay for reconstruction. Out went crumbling terracing; in came safer seating and improved facilities that made fans feel more like spectators than animals. And as the game began rebuilding its domestic appeal, a handful of chairmen with a sharper eye for profits made a bold move. For years, the top teams had threatened to split from England's four-tier, 120-year-old Football League, claiming that with...
...home and in the back of her SUV. Last month charges were dropped in Marion County, where the SUV incident is said to have occurred, because the boy's family did not want him dragged through a tawdry trial. They had worked out a plea agreement in Hillsborough County that sentences Lafave to three years of house arrest, seven years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender who cannot work with or near children. "We only hope, in the next few weeks, Debbie will fade to a footnote," her lawyer, John Fitzgibbons, told the Tampa Tribune...