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...canisters, food, anything - to halt the descent," Branson said. "I thought, "What am I doing up here?" The acknowledged hero of the safe landing was engineer Alex Ritchie, himself a last-minute replacement for a sick crewman, who climbed outside the capsule to jettison a one-ton fuel tank, slowing the rapid fall. "We owe a debt of gratitude to Alex. He saved our lives," said Branson. At the launch Tuesday a North African military air base near Marrakech, Morocco, Branson had expressed higher hopes. "We are about to embark on a great adventure," Branson said shortly before setting...
...participation at the seminar and inviting a wide range of speakers, including George Will, the renowned conservative journalist, and Roger Porter, a former policy adviser to George Bush. The school's move toward bipartisanship is necessary both for the Kennedy School to maintain its reputation as a national think tank and for the New Members of Congress Conference to foster interaction between Representatives of both parties. The renewed possibility for deliberation and dialogue that transcends party lines is the key to the Kennedy School's continued success. We hope that this trend continues, within the walls of the Kennedy School...
...read in the Chicago Tribune that the comic-book industry is in the tank; sales of the Superman/Batman group, for instance, have declined 72% in the past three years. Then I read in the New York Times that the record industry is in "one of the most perplexing crises it has faced in decades," with new albums by such well-known groups as Hootie & the Blowfish moldering on the shelves. Is it safe to assume that the young people of this country are finally concentrating on their homework...
Nguyen said he and Shieh hope to reincarnate AAA's weekly study group as a multimedia "think tank," which would include elements of Asian American culture and current events...
...Albright announced without preamble, "This marriage is dead. And I'm in love with somebody else." They had been married 23 years, and she didn't want a divorce. But by the time he walked out, she was building an academic career and turning her home into a think tank, where she ran a sort of salon for Democratic foreign policy makers. She taught international relations at Georgetown, where students voted her the most popular professor four years in a row. In 1984 she pitched in as Veep candidate Geraldine Ferraro's foreign policy adviser. "She was the perfect teacher...