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David Neeleman's weeklong media apology tour took the JetBlue CEO from the Today show to David Letterman to Anderson Cooper to beg forgiveness for the popular airline's Valentine's Day debacle. The company had stranded more than 100,000 travelers after bad weather decimated its operating ability--in one case JetBlue passengers were left on a snowed-in runway for more than nine hours. Neeleman's mea culpa reached its apogee with a series of full-page national-newspaper ads: "Words cannot express how truly sorry we are for the anxiety, frustration and inconvenience that you, your family...
...scream, you scream, Harvard students scream for ice cream. Following annual tradition, hundreds of hungry Cantabrigians flocked to Ben & Jerry’s yesterday for free scoops, even though the weather was anything but ice cream-friendly. And as ice cream connoisseurs sought refuge from the April showers, their generosity helped raise money for the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Summer Program (BRYE). Although the ice cream was free, hungry patrons were encouraged to buy freshly made waffle cones for $1. The proceeds went to the summer program, which is affiliated with Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association...
...wanted to give it an awards show feel, like the Oscars,” said Pino. But despite the glitzy setup and the enthusiastic efforts of publicity head Dara Johnson ’10, things seemed pretty slow on Tuesday morning. Whether it was because of the weather or because of midterms, the students streaming by the entrance to the Science Center were certainly not beating a path to the set. A few passers-by allowed themselves to be photographed in T-shirts and jeans, while another posed with her no-nonsense black messenger bag slung at her side. Luckily...
...deadly purpose. The gun is just 6.85 inches long and 5 inches wide, according to a Glock website, and thus easily concealed. A vest with several pockets can hold a number of compact 15-round magazines that fit a Glock 19. Cho surely knew that in cold weather a mass murderer could carry an arsenal on his back and in his pockets, and there would be no way to detect him, short of metal detectors at every entrance to every classroom building and dorm...
...Weather forecasts aroused such concern among the race’s organizers that they sent an e-mail to all participants a few days before race day. The message urged runners to take special precautions for the predicted cold and wet conditions, as hypothermia risk would be particularly high...