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...days before a college kid named Nathaniel Heatwole got busted for acting like a would-be terrorist, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) conducted a poll and claims it received good news: most folks believe the agency is doing a decent job. According to the poll, which has not yet been published, about 90% of respondents who had recently flown said security at airports was "somewhat better to much better" than it was before 9/11. It's easy to see why. The federal screeners scanning our bodies, bags and shoes are often infallibly polite, and in their starched white shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bumps In The Sky | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...convey what is special about the Swedenborgian church is to say that there is a place in heaven for all who live decent and caring lives” says Buteux. “Our service-oriented church complements the diverse, tolerant dynamic of Cambridge, and I would like it to remain that...

Author: By Shayak Sarkar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chapel May Remain in Cambridge Permanently | 10/28/2003 | See Source »

...played well,” Harvard coach Tim Wheaton said. “We got a good early goal and created some good chances. It was one of those games that I don’t think either team missed a bunch of chances. Both teams had some decent chances but no unbelievable chances that they didn’t finish...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Can’t Catch Breaks, Ties Tigers 1-1 | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...also Americans. Yet the film resists the tugs of Hollywood melodrama. It builds a pyramid of culpability--the street thugs who push the drugs; the middlemen who cover their malefactions with bluff charm ("We don't sell drugs," protests one, played by Ciaran Hinds, "we're just ordinary decent criminals"); and the top dog (Gerald McSorley, stern and scary as Gilligan), who comes out of hiding only to brutalize the innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Dying To Tell The Story | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

Attie was drawn to the show’s representation of White House insiders as driven and decent people. “The thing ‘The West Wing’ always intended to do was to show the kind of people you hoped would be running the country,” he says...

Author: By Jessica E. Gould, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 'West' and the Brightest | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

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