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Bullwinkle J. Moose, in his amiable, lunkhead way, remains perversely optimistic about the future. But Rocky has developed a psychosomatic inability to fly. Luckily for them, in far-off Hollywood a development girl (Janeane Garofalo) dreams of a feature film that will restore their fortunes. Carl Reiner's studio boss is dim on that--"I hate moose movies," he snarls, in one of the film's many self-referential lines, a tradition that was one of the hip glories of the original TV show. But by this time an actual movie, directed by Des McAnuff and written by Kenneth Lonergan...
...believe. The Sox have what may be the best team in the game. In a golden age of shortstops, they have one of the finest in Nomar Garciaparra, the defending American League batting champ who was hitting .387 as of Saturday. They have a new hero in center fielder Carl Everett, picked up in the off-season and now hitting .329, with 22 homers and 63 runs batted in. They have budding stars in right fielder Trot Nixon and catcher Jason Varitek and a dominating ninth-inning pitcher in Derek Lowe, who has saved 16 games...
...meet him today, you'd never guess that Chuck grew up homeless. At 19, he is well-spoken and clean-cut, a former high school linebacker with his own car and a longtime girlfriend. Last month he graduated from Carl Hayden Community High School with a B average. This fall he'll enroll with a full academic scholarship at Phoenix College, where, he says, he'll try to "rediscover a bit of the childhood I lost...
...that the crash that killed 217 in October was caused by a suicidal co-pilot, GAMIL EL-BATOUTI, Egypt applied political pressure in Washington and is spending freely on a public relations effort. A slew of experts were hired to press the issue for EgyptAir, including former NTSB chairman CARL VOGT and several former NTSB investigative specialists. Those hires paid off last week, when Aviation Week claimed U.S. investigators were doubting the suicide theory and instead were looking at mechanical failures as the key cause. "That is pure baloney," says a U.S. government official familiar with the NTSB's work...
...There are too many vocal variables in courtrooms, depositions and live TV programming, not to mention foreign accents and the fast talkers of America. Until a machine can be trained to capture anyone all the time under a multitude of conditions, court reporters and stenographers will be needed. CARL SAUCEDA, PRESIDENT National Court Reporters Association Hayward, Calif...