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...morning of Feb. 19, 1979, a Cessna 172 took off from Santa Monica, Calif., bound for the ski resort Big Bear. On board were Norman Ollestad, his father, his father's girlfriend Sandra and the pilot. Crossing the San Gabriel Mountains in heavy gray snow clouds, the plane failed to clear Ontario Peak. It crashed into the mountain at 8,200 ft. (2,500 m), just short of the summit, in the middle of a blizzard. Norman and Sandra survived the initial impact, but only Norman made it down off the mountain...
CONVICTED On May 19, former Democratic Party fundraiser Norman Hsu, 58, was found guilty of campaign-finance fraud. He faces up to 20 years in prison for the conviction and another 20 for operating a Ponzi scheme, to which he pleaded guilty...
When TV reflects a shift in the public mood, it often does so counterintuitively: 24 thrived under Bush, but so did The West Wing; Norman Lear's progressive comedies flourished under Nixon. And for all the change in the news, our top-rated shows remain American Idol and crime dramas, as they have been for years...
...Norman Y. Yao ’09 received the 2009 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize from the Radcliffe Institute for breakthrough research on the mechanical properties of cellular networks on Wednesday. Yao was selected for the honor from among the 83 winners of the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for the quality and impact of his senior thesis, which describes an innovative scientific technique to measure the properties of neurofilaments, one of the structural elements found in nerve cells. "More than anything, I am very humbled and honored to have been selected out of such an amazing group of [Hoopes Prize winners...
Winthrop House: David J. Andersson, Justin S. Becker, Ying-Qiu-Qi Lei, Norman...