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...reports suggested that many fishing villages on the mainland had also been hit by the wave. A warning could have allowed villagers on the coast to flee to higher ground. "The truth, even if it hurts, [is that] a division of the navy made a mistake," Defense Minister Francisco Vidal told reporters. He blamed the navy for not issuing a tsunami warning after the Feb. 27 earthquake rocked the South American country...
...Vidal U. Ekechukwu ’12, Leverett, Auditioning Model
...navigator and their plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, leaving no trace but spurring hundreds of theories about their fate. The movie dutifully covers the high points and a few details you didn't learn in grade school - including Earhart's great passion for Gore Vidal's father and how much of her celebrity was contrived and manipulated - but it leaves the odd impression of being merely a very long trailer for a film you'd actually love to see. (See the top 10 famous disappearances...
Then there's her friendship and apparent long-standing affair with Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), a West Point flying instructor who became head of the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce during the Roosevelt Administration, thanks largely to Earhart's advocacy with Eleanor Roosevelt (a jolly Cherry Jones). Gore Vidal, a child at the time, confirmed to Butler much of the relationship, sharing details like Earhart's habit of wearing Gene's underwear while aloft (helpful with that midair funnel). With tidbits like this, who needs flashbacks to ticker-tape parades? But both romances are bloodless. Even when Earhart...
...pink, drawing Barbie-lovers ages 13 to 80 from all over the globe, including Russia, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Britain and France. A trio of sisters trekked from Mexico in order to be around other passionate Barbie fans. "There is no Barbie club in Mexico," said the oldest, Leonor Vidal Rosada. (Watch TIME's video: "Turning 50 with Barbie...