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LEAVE GRANTED. To Martin George, 44, commercial director of British Airways (BA), and Iain Burns, 47, BA's head of communications, while a probe is conducted by British and U.S. regulators into alleged price-fixing by BA and other airlines; in London. The investigation is focused on ticket prices and...
Ken Burns sees the New York Times crossword puzzle as "a set of boxes in which you practice the wordplay of this particularly exquisite language." Bill Clinton solves his Times crosswords as he would a political problem: "You start with what you know the answer to, and you just build...
Ken Burns, the doyen of TV documentaries, notes that a city like New York is founded on "a sense of grids. You know, it's all about boxes. You live in a box, and you ride in a box [the subway] to go to work in a box. Then we...
The puzzle to which Okrent refers is one Reagle constructed for the film. The theme is Word Play, and it uses the key words hidden in new configurations: word in "neW ORDers" and "cross sWORDs," play in "PLAYa Del Mar" and "toP LAYers." We see Reagle creating the puzzle, then...
As the celebrity solvers attack the puzzle, the box of the movie screen is divided into sections, highlighting the clues and the spaces for their answers. Like we said, smart people on both sides of the camera. The one thing the movie doesn't reveal is why so many of...