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That audience, of course, was me. Every Wednesday night, I would rush back to my Cambridge apartment, nuke a bag of popcorn, cuddle up on the couch and prepare for Survivor. Although some may consider a two-hour grace period between when my eyes were first glued to the television and when the opening credits for the show began to run to be a little excessive, I assure you the time was well-spent writing letters to CBS concerning how much Big Brother sucked...
...only assume that Phil isn't a very big fan of WWF boss Vince McMahon's plans for a new eight-team football league, the XFL. He's probably about as thrilled about the idea as Rudy from Survivor would be about a cameo appearance on Will and Grace...
...supersonic Concorde must be permanently grounded because of safety concerns, I will miss it [BUSINESS, Aug. 28]. What is on the horizon to take its place? There is no other passenger aircraft to equal the Concorde's elegant union of power and grace. The stylistically repetitive banality of modern passenger aircraft is a disappointment. Almost every Boeing and Airbus looks the same. Come on, Boeing, you have the talent to design something better. With your next aircraft, take our breath away. G. STUART EWY Los Angeles...
...compared with the 6 million lost in the Holocaust. But one of the Kinder, novelist Lore Segal, makes this poignant point: "None of the foster parents with whom I stayed, and there were five of them, could stand me for very long, but all of them had the grace to take in a Jewish child." That was a quality singularly lacking elsewhere (particularly in the U.S.). Still, this moving tribute to a handful of candles flickering in the darkness has the power to summon us - one prays - to our better selves...
...couldn't even complete a sentence grammatically. And Ronald Reagan, of course, was a complete imbecile. I don't compare W. to Ike or Reagan, who, unlike W., could laugh all the way to the electoral college. But that Manhattan dinner-party smugness - moron jokes as the coup de grace - gives me hives...