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...born. She had bumped down in Cheyenne on Wednesday night in a heavy crosswind. "The wind was pushing us out," she told reporters. "You just have to give the plane more power." According to her father, she had been assisted in the landing by Reid, her flight instructor, a veteran pilot and the president of the Half Moon Bay Pilots Association who had given her 35 hours of flying lessons. "We're trying to set a record," her father said, "but we're not trying to be stupid about...
...airplane across the country in a misbegotten publicity stunt--as long as a licensed pilot was beside her. At week's end a federal investigator suggested that Jessica's Cessna was overloaded for the thin Rocky Mountain air and wind shear may have induced the flight instructor to take over the controls in the plane's last few moments...
...brief flight and violent fall of Jessica, her father Lloyd and flight instructor Joe Reid was seized upon and transformed into a kind of modern morality tale of parents looking for meaning and morning shows searching for novelty. On talk radio and in coffee shops, her soaring spirit and tragic plunge were the subjects of outrage and debate. Overnight she became the poster child of parental and media exploitation, of an ethos that granted children too much freedom rather than too little, of a parental drive not content to let children be children. Many wondered whether the freedom to pursue...
Much of the other components of the handbook seem like they were added mainly to fill space. For example, the names of every instructor or administrator who claims to be interested in "race issues" are listed. There is also a list of "audio-visual resources" which includes films such as "Shaft" and "Superfly." While blaxploitation movies may be an underappreciated genre, we do not think that they have much of a connection to campus race relations...
Ashutosh Varshney, associate professor of government and instructor of Foreign Cultures 14: "Society and Politics in India," discussed "Hindu Nationalism and Indian Democracy" in light of the upcoming elections...