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Amid the grief there was also anger. Though Senna himself was famously fatalistic about his participation in a sport in which speeds of more than 180 m.p.h. are not uncommon, there were those who thought he had died needlessly. No one had been killed in a Formula One race for 12 years, yet at San Marino alone there were five accidents and two deaths. The day before Senna missed a turn and drove his Williams-Renault into a concrete wall, Austrian rookie Roland Ratzenberger had perished in a similar accident during qualifying trials...
Arrangements such as Stone's are not uncommon for members of Harvard's governing boards-- the seven member Corporation and the 30-person Board of Overseers...
...people like him are changing the way wethink of psychiatrists and the way psychiatryoperates," says Assistant Professor of PsychiatryJon Rady. "Jeff's nontraditional route from mathto physics to medicine to psychiatry is not goingto be uncommon in the future...
...first half of the 19th century, when the art of photography first came into being as such, it was employed almost exclusively in the service of bereaved family members of the recently deceased. Photography was an uncommon, costly and lengthy process, and theidea of being reproduced on film was completelyforeign. Therefore, cameras were first used toproduce highly stylized portraits of the dead,which were then hung in places of honor in thehomes of their living relatives...
Colosio came from a humble background and climbed his way up through hard work. He attended public school--uncommon among the present generation of leaders--and obtained excellent grades. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Recently, he was nominated as the presidential candidate...