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...Israelis do it? For one thing, El Al puts at least one armed, plainclothes sky marshal on all its flights. One such agent foiled a hijack attempt over Holland in 1970. During El Al flights, the cockpit door, made of reinforced steel strong enough to repel fire from a handgun, remains locked...
Ruth Simmons, the newly installed president of Brown University and the first African American to lead an Ivy League school, is a throwback to the crusading campus leaders of old. She doesn't merely marshal funds; she invests them in the great educational causes of our day. With the more than $300 million she raised as president of Smith College from 1995 to 2001, Simmons established an engineering program (the first at any women's school) and added seminars focused on public speaking to purge the ubiquitous "likes" and "ums" from the campus idiom. At a meeting to discuss...
...It’s certainly an idea that needs to be considered. All ideas should be on the table. They need to be sifted out and the practicable and effective ones should be implemented,” he says. “An air marshal could probably cover several flights a day, but you’d need to have more than one, because if one of the terrorists starts doing something, and the marshal goes over, he’d be promptly attacked in the back by terrorist number...
Xunhua “Sunny” Wong `01, who is also a class marshal, declined to comment. Matthew O’Hare `01, also a class marshal, did not return repeated calls for comment. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe `01, the first class marshal, was not available for comment...
...explain complex issues to the general public," says Frank S. Rossi, a member of this year's graduating law school class and a class marshal...