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...After negotiating with Hanscom Field in nearby Bedford, Beica is hoping for at least a 5 percent discount on rentals. Additionally, the club would split the costs of renting a plane among members. The ranks of the trained-but-unable (as well as the untrained, wannabe Tom Cruises a la “Top Gun”) are sizeable. Beica received 72 responses to a mass introductory e-mail he sent over House lists. “I’m looking forward to getting inside any kind of flying device,” says Benjamin C. Woodruff...

Author: By Xiaofei Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A New Mile High Club | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...night, a large, mixed crowd was dancing and singing “baila la calle...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latino Groups Unite in Celebration of Culture | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...Anyone can express, without fear of legal reprisal, their political convictions, as extreme as they may be. And, in Cambridge, one has only to wander the Square on a seasonable afternoon to witness the excessive exercise of that right. Yet the difference between the La Rouche representatives or the parading union activists and Columbia University president Lee Bollinger—beside the Ph.D.—is that the affectionately-termed “Cambridge crazies” are not subsidized by American taxpayers. That is, unless they are on the dole as well...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: With Rights Come Responsibilities | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

...dozen men and women came tumbling out of two large, metallic-white buses that pulled up beside the French Navy's headquarters on the Place de la Concorde in central Paris. First out onto the sidewalk was a white-haired gentleman with several folders tucked under his arm. He was followed by 11 slightly disoriented people whose appearance of confusion increased as they became surrounded by scores of onlookers appearing out of nowhere. A burly woman with a bright orange "police" armband then began barking "You can't stay here!" at the gawkers, while impressive-looking male colleagues formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Diana Jurors Go to Paris | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

...London last week, the six women and five men accompanied Judge Baker to Paris Monday to get a firsthand view of the route that led the couple to their deaths. That journey began at the swank Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendome, and continued to the Place de la Concorde and the unscheduled rendezvous with the press pack waiting to pounce. The jurors were then driven by bus down the long, straight expressway that eventually dips underground at the Pont d'Alma - the tunnel where Diana's car struck a pillar that killed both her and al-Fayed. After reexamining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Diana Jurors Go to Paris | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

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