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Rachel says societal pressure to be thin and the normal stress of undergraduate life at Harvard made her problem worse...
...evidence supporting the wake-vortex theory is thin. As Flight 427 approached the airport, it was following a Delta Airlines 727, a heavier Boeing plane that generates a slightly stronger wake. Flight 427 trailed the other jet by 4.1 nautical miles, well within the FAA regulation that requires two planes of such weights to maintain a separation of 3 nautical miles. If the 727 wake did jostle the 737 sufficiently to contribute to the latter's plunge, it would be a first. While 727s were the lead craft in seven of the 52 wake-vortex encounters documented by the NTSB...
Richards may have hoped to bait Bush, who is known as thin-skinned, into a similarly disastrous gaffe; she has goaded him by crediting his business successes to "his daddy's friends," calling him "that young Bush boy" and once, a "jerk." Yet Bush has stayed calm, politely staking out positions to her right on crime, welfare and the size of government. Against this, Richards, who is said to genuinely dislike Bush, appears adrift. Says Austin political consultant Bill Miller, who has worked for both parties: "Ann Richards is in serious trouble. Bush is taking the fight...
...writes better about the fear and homesickness of a boy adrift amid what he cannot understand, be it combat or love. O'Brien shows us Wade as a lonely, pudgy 10- year-old, practicing magic tricks before the mirror, hoping to conjure a callous father's love out of thin air. "The mirror made his father smile all the time. The mirror made the vodka bottles vanish from their hiding place in the garage, and it helped with the hard, angry silence at the dinner table." At his father's funeral the 14-year-old boy "wanted to kill everybody...
Groups to be featured include: On Thin Ice, an undergraduate improvtroupe; the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company; and the Radcliffe Pitches. Tickets are available at the door...