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Time's put-down of the Ford Motor Co. was way out of line. Unlike the rental described in your story, my Ford Focus has an armrest and cruise control, plus side air bags, antilock brakes--and it gets between 32 and 34 m.p.g. I have been faithful to the company for more than 50 years because of its products, because it has more of a social conscience than other big manufacturers and because I try my best to buy American...
...have you driven a Ford lately? I rented a Focus in Oregon this summer and can't say I fell in love. The car lacked basics like an armrest and a driver-side trunk release--forget cruise control--and emitted a high-pitched whine at 60 m.p.h. O.K., it was a stripped-down, beat-up rental. But people, please, can't you do better...
...this occasion, to my relief, the guy next to me is a fellow journalist and veteran of the nightmare landings. Even so, as we begin the descent, I move my hand away from the armrest. Looking over my shoulder, I see a familiar expression on the faces of my co-passengers: a mixture of fear and resignation. Sister Benedetta is staring up at the ceiling, her lips moving in prayer. I reach into my shirt pocket and surreptitiously rub my fingers over that laminated picture. When the Fokker's wheels hit the tarmac, 50 people sigh in unison, 50 stomachs...
...TIME, an arm of Time Warner), seem to be quietly confident. Their ace in the hole is director Wolfgang Petersen, who, having directed The Perfect Storm and Das Boot, knows from terror and tension on top of and beneath the waves. Poseidon could just be the preposterous, grip-the-armrest thriller people love in summer. Or, like the ship, it could be a sinker. -By Belinda Luscombe...
...proceeded just the way Kerry wanted it: smoothly, surefootedly and secretly, right up to the moment when John Edwards' selection was announced. A beaming Kerry was popping in and out of the cabin. Edwards was catching a nap, his ever present Diet Coke on the tray of the armrest next to him; his wife Elizabeth was reading. But across the aisle, campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill was explaining her biggest worry to TIME. "August." Cahill said simply. "We haven't figured out how we get through August...