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...Runnion and Van Dam were taken and brutally murdered; Smart stolen from her home and still missing. Those girls, white, middle-class and taken from neighborhoods where those kinds of things don't happen, you've heard of them. But you probably wouldn't have heard of Erica Pratt, a seven-year-old kidnapped from a sidewalk near her home Monday night, because she is from a neighborhood where those kinds of things happen, or at least where we think they do; the area of Southwest Philadelphia where she lives is a poor place where drug-dealing is common...
Anthony Demas, a graduate of the Pratt Institute in New York and a 1980 graduate of the Harvard Business School, died in the terrorist attacks...
This ignores the latest twist on a now familiar argument: that unless we dress up in grotesque or silly frocks and ask people for junk food, the terrorists will have won. "Halloween is the only holiday we have left where people open their doors to strangers," says Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History. "It's a holiday for kids, and there is no reason to take it away from them...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, the result was all too familiar as UMass’ Mike Foley scored four goals and Harvard fell to UMass, 9-6, at Pratt Pool in Amherst...
...coveted Honeywell International, whose business making advanced electronics for the aviation industry, he thought, made a perfect fit with GE, one of three leading global manufacturers of airplane engines. In October 2000, during a visit to the New York Stock Exchange, he had learned that United Technologies Corp.--whose Pratt & Whitney division is another huge enginemaker--planned to buy Honeywell. Within 45 minutes, on the phone from his car, Welch had lined up his board to make a counter-offer. Two days later he had Honeywell in the bag; it would be the largest ever merger between two industrial companies...