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This back-to-basics experiment seems, at first blush, naive and obvious. Does one really need a walk in the woods to discover that TV has too many sitcoms, or that the Home Shopping Network is crass? Well, maybe we do. The Age of Missing Information is an invigorating, even revelatory look at what the TV age hath wrought...
Other major airlines offered variations on American's plan. Delta and United adopted the basic four-fare system but said they would continue to study volume discounts for corporate and military travel. Although his airline matched American's moves, Northwest chief executive John Dasburg questioned the plan. "At first blush, this actually looks like it might end up reducing rather than raising revenues per seat mile," Dasburg said. "Price simplification has been a little like tax simplification -- it doesn't seem to work...
...FIRST BLUSH, Camden Yards was the stadium of my dreams. Sports columnists in the know promised it would bring the old-time charm back to ballpark design that Watergate-era concrete monoliths like Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium had stolen away...
Saturday night the Harvard women's basketball team administered a beating that would've made the LAPD blush...
...will admit: the surge of righteous anger, even the fun -- for those inclined -- of wearing sheets and burning crosses. But there are better, nobler sources of white pride, it seems to me. Remember, whatever they say about our music or our taste in clothes, only we can truly, deeply blush...