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...also a Tuesday, statistically one of the two least busy travel days of the week. Even better for pilots and air traffic controllers (ATC), the weather broke clear and cooler in the northeast, the country's most crowded airspace. The Federal Aviation Administration also knew, though of course doesn't publicize, that Air Force One - whose comings and goings can ball up huge swaths of the nation's airspace - was way down in Florida and wouldn't be cruising back into Andrews Air Force Base until noon, comfortably after the morning rush hour had let up. FAA Administrator Jane Garvey...
...efface the self you've worked hard to assemble over the years and you feel a new you emerge, a nicer you, calmer, cooler, easier-going. The you you really are and not the guy you constructed at the U and from Gary Cooper movies and tailored to the needs of Hubbard, Buttrick, Bickford & Barnes and re-tuned in therapy with Dr. Koren. Now you become the you you were afraid the world would find out about. Goombah, homeboy, cowpoke or hobo. Or, in my case, a limericist. But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet...
...were different, cooler, better, even if the tough guys and cheerleaders didn't know it. We cheered at the scene in Broadcast News where the young nerd (to become the grownup played by Albert Brooks) tells the lunkheaded bullies who beat him up at school that they'll never make more than $19,000 a year. We went to movies with names like Revenge of the Nerds--which even if no one knew it then were about exactly this new class division--then had our real-life nerds' revenge in the roaring...
Seen from the 2000s, our musical secession was just another facet of the secession of an entire group of Americans that declares itself a nation--different, cooler, better--through its brands: Maglite, Volvo, Apple. Alternative consumption, if you will. Is it any surprise that this market includes people who, as teenagers, were combing record bins for 12-in., imported Depeche Mode singles--pricey, sure, for just a few minutes of music, but of such higher quality...
...blurbs about 2.9% APR financing. Should we care that in the process we lost the sense of unity with our peers that generations before us had, that our niche music happened to mesh perfectly with niche marketing? After all these years, it turns out we are different. We are cooler. We are better. Just ask Mercedes...