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Back in his days as the geek god of clerks at Manhattan Beach Video Archives, Quentin Tarantino must have looked at all those World War II movies, especially the ones about plots to kill Hitler, and realized what was wrong: everybody knows the ending. Bad guys lose. Hitler died in his bunker. Where's the suspense? Where's the ambiguity? Most films about the war treat the historical record as sacred, which often serves as an excuse for lofty moral judgments. Only a few bold souls created alternative versions, like the 1963 film It Happened Here, in which Kevin Brownlow...
...aerophile who for some baffling reason enjoys nothing more than sitting on planes and lounging in airports. From 10 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 11, to 10 a.m. the following Monday, he will fly from New York to Ponce, Puerto Rico, back to New York to Las Vegas to Long Beach, Calif., to Portland, Ore., back to Long Beach to Chicago to New York to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and back to New York one last time. Yes, Miller will board 10 flights in 60 hours, without missing a minute of work. Yes, the poor soul will jet to the Caribbean, twice...
...Miller has to fly back to New York, JetBlue's home base, to get from one destination to another? Lilia Tovbin, a New York City technology manager, booked a 10-day, six-city trip with the pass but will have to fly from Seattle to Portland and from Long Beach to Phoenix on another airline since JetBlue doesn't service those routes. "It's a little bit hard," she says...
...thus began a friendship that lasted a quarter-century. We spoke regularly, usually on Mondays when he was down in Bethany Beach, Del. Novak loved to dish, yes, and his column, with its vast reach, had its uses for people all over town. But he pushed me to think, to analyze Washington and to look around corners at what was happening. He made me smarter in dozens of ways, and for that I will always be grateful. Over many lunches at the Army and Navy Club on Farragut Square, he also became a friend in whom I could confide...
When are you going to write a six-page article flanked with color pictures of the Palestinian victims kicked out by force from their villages to make way for these illegal and illegitimate outposts? Ahmed Said, VIRGINIA BEACH...