Word: skiing
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...Alpine team also faced low numbers in 1998-99, and struggled in the highly competitive EISA. Due to poor snow conditions the team was unable to train at Blue Hills Ski Area at all during the school week...
Despite single-digit membership, the Harvard Nordic and Alpine ski teams registered solid individual results in the 1998-99 season and worked to ensure greater team success in future years. Competing in the 12-team Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA), the teams traveled to a series of carnivals throughout the northeast...
...Marine Corps delivered a verdict Friday on the 1998 ski gondola accident near Cavalese, Italy, in which a low-flying jet clipped the cable and killed 20 people. The pilot of the EA-6B Prowler, who was acquitted in March of manslaughter, was convicted by a military jury of obstruction of justice and conspiracy for helping destroy an in-flight videotape that might have shed light on the accident. That is the charge that stuck to Capt. Richard Ashby, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, after the first court-martial revealed a series of mix-ups and deficiencies...
DIED. FREAKY TAH, 28, a.k.a. Raymond Rogers, member of the hip-hop band Lost Boyz; when a gunman in a ski mask shot him in the head as he left a party; in New York City. On a 1996 record, Legal Drug Money, the band members, who have acknowledged dealing drugs in the past, referred to going straight after watching the shooting of a fellow dealer...
...pilot-error accidents that are survived, powerful, protective psychological forces are at work on the subconscious. Even before landing, the truth can be distorted in the minds of the flight crew. In the case of the Italian accident, this self-denial was taken all the way from the bloodied ski slopes of Cavalese to the court-martial room in North Carolina. A.J. CRAIG Mold, Wales...