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...veteran pilot Isaac Fuchs issued a distress call, reporting a fire in a right-wing engine. As he circled back for the airport, dumping fuel in preparation for an emergency landing, he radioed that a second engine had failed. "Going down! Going down!" Fuchs' words, monitored by the control tower, had a chilling simplicity. Seconds later, the giant plane slammed into the apartment building, sundering it in two. Three minutes' grace, and the jet would have reached the closest runway 10 miles away...
...realize that Harvard is not the world, and that the world is more important than Harvard. The problem of diversity for 6400 undergraduates at Harvard should take second, maybe even third priority to the problems of the millions of economically and socially disadvantaged Americans who live outside our Ivory Tower. Diversity at Harvard should not become a distraction...
...decided it was time to step out of my ivory tower doing research and do something for the country," said Hagelin, 38, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard...
...shopping trip as that might seem, it was the scenario on which Sears, Roebuck & Co. built its 1980s growth strategy to turn the nation's prototype "Big Store" into one of the largest retail companies on earth. A decade later, the retailer's executives at the landmark Sears Tower corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago have admitted defeat. In one of the most painful setbacks in its 106- year history, Sears announced that it would soon begin dismantling its $57 billion financial and merchandising empire...
Take Harvard Square, which is a hub for increasingly ruthless retail competition. This is a Square that has attracted--in the middle of a recession, no less--stores like HMV, Tower Records, Structure, The Body Shop, Origins and Learningsmith. With the notable exception of the Coop, most of these stores are not consumer cooperatives but for-profit companies, in which business decisions are made and profits kept by investors, not consumers...