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...major problem on typical jetliners, it is critical to the Concorde because its design and power make it particularly vulnerable on takeoff. If the sensitive balance was off, British Air pilots would call the mechanic to the cockpit for severe reprimands. The weight distribution had to be correct; otherwise even the wind could pose a danger. In Paris on July 25, 2000, the wind had shifted to come from behind the aircraft: a basic rule for all pilots is that planes should take off into the wind. The Air France Concorde headed down the runway with an eight-knot tailwind...
...described by the FBI last week is purely fictional, a portrait assembled in part from what little evidence is available and in part from long experience with serial killers. But if the bureau's forensic profilers are correct, it's a pretty good description of the man behind the anthrax attacks that have terrified America for the past five weeks. Sooner or later, they hope, someone will notice that it also describes a friend or co-worker or - as in the case of the Unabomber - a relative...
...allegedly humorous fable about a man who suddenly sees women only as manifestations of their inner beauty, Shallow Hal is a movie for those annoyed by the politically correct self-restraint of Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor remakes. The total lack of irony in its vacuous storyline will delight audiences confused by the dramatic complexities of Jim Carrey’s Liar, Liar. Pauly Shore would refuse to appear in a movie that relies so heavily on the repetitive use of a single joke...
...stresses that the TV Bernie Mac, like the onstage Bernie Mac, is a character. "I'm more reserved," he says. "He's the cat who everybody's got in their family, who they're always trying to shut up. Bernie Mac ain't trying to be politically correct...
...face of this awful reality, it is understandable that devout Muslims wish to defend their faith against the charge that it made so much suffering possible. And in an important way, their defense is correct. We have no reason to believe that, when properly interpreted, Islam’s teachings are consistent with acts of terrorism. I am no expert in Islamic theology, and so when the entire American Muslim community assures me—as Saif I. Shah Mohammed ’02 and Zayed M. Yasin ’02, writing recently in The Crimson, so passionately assured...