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...thus began a four-day ordeal, as Kim tried to replace the documents that she needed to leave Italy...
Kim’s academic adviser, Leverett House residential tutor Karthik Muralidharan ’98, said that everyone could learn a few things from Kim’s ordeal...
...House Arrests” (Jan. 12) that the detention of Amar C. Bakshi ’06 in Zimbabwe must not result in the College re-tightening its travel policy, we disagree with the staff’s outlined reasons. The editorial stated that Bakshi’s ordeal should not concern Harvard because it was self-financed and because, under the current policy, it is debatable whether research in a country like Zimbabwe would be eligible for Harvard funding anyway. This argument ignores the main reason why, last spring, we helped rally 400 students across the campus to call...
...ordeal began early Monday morning when a powerful explosion erupted inside an old, sealed-off section of the mine. The blast reverberated for miles around. ?I thought the roof of my house was coming off,? said Lynette Roby. One group of miners had lingered close to the mine entrance and was able to escape. Another group of 13 had ventured about 2.5 miles into the shaft and was trapped in a cloud of dust and carbon monoxide. One member of this group, fire boss Marty Bennett, had been traveling a few hundred feet in the rear, monitoring oxygen levels...
...true Harvard student tradition, Shah came up with the idea to form a facebook group commemorating the ordeal. She called it, "Survivors of Midwest Flight 210." The group had nine members as of last night...