Nelson Mandela
- Globalization
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Chesley Sullenberger
- Chesley Sullenberger's Career
After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980. Chesley Sullenberger.
Chesley Sullenberger
- Flight 1549 Landing
When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, "Safety begins in the boardroom." That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.
Erskine Childers
- The Riddle of the Sands
A keen wind from the west struck our faces, and as swiftly as it had come the fog rolled away from us, in one mighty mass, stripping clean and pure the starry dome of heaven...
