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...aback, Weintrob and his team laid out details: In its short life, Valujet had had more than its share of accidents and mishaps. Its planes repeatedly overshot runways and suffered from collapsed landing gears. Planes took off in weather that kept pilots of other airlines on the ground. Fires broke out on planes. Engines exploded. In one blast, the engine spewed shrapnel into the fuselage of a plane, piercing the metal and injuring seven people inside...
...Friday, the New York Times broke a story about the famous "Serenity Prayer," part of which is cited above. For decades, it has been routinely attributed to the great Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. He wrote it, according to most accounts, for a sermon he gave in the summer of 1943. So certain is his daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, of its provenance, that she put out a book in 2003 about its connections with her father's views on peace and war. But the Times reports that an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by a law librarian and quotation expert there...
...overtapped aquifers and polluted beaches. The land of Disney dreams for the middle class is now a high-cost, low-wage state with Mickey Mouse schools and Goofy insurance rates, living beyond its environmental and economic means in harm's way. As peculiar as it sounds, this go-for-broke state of boundless possibilities - the land of Kimbo Slice, Miami Vice and Mar-a-Lago - might be leading America into a new era of limits...
Israel's Rising Star In his otherwise good report on Israeli leader Tzipi Livni, Tim McGirk states, "She broke with her parents' Zionist views; friends say she'd rather have a peaceful Israel to bequeath to her children" [June 23]. I didn't realize that for Israelis, having nationalistic feelings and a desire to live in peace are mutually exclusive. Robert Isler, FAIR LAWN...
...however, Democrat Walter Mondale found himself in need of a miracle against incumbent President Ronald Reagan. Mondale, who joined Carter's ticket on the third day of the 1976 convention, broke with traditional timing by naming Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate a week before the party gathered in San Francisco. Mondale turned his one-week convention bounce into a two-week sensation - not that it mattered much. Reagan was re-elected in a landslide of historic proportions...