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Playwright David Hare does. And in Racing Demon, which is visiting Los Angeles in a Royal National Theatreproduction, unfashionable form and seemingly distant subject matter are suddenly made vividly relevant. At the center of Richard Eyre's dark, stark yet ever bustling production stands (or rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that...
...ideal flying weather. The twilight skies were clear, with only a few small clouds, and winds were a negligible 7 m.p.h. USAir Flight 427 was nearing Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after an uneventful flight from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Right around 7 p.m. the pilot radioed approach control at Pittsburgh International Airport, set in heavily wooded, lightly populated hills 12 miles northwest of the Golden Triangle, that he was "in range," about to ask for landing clearance...
Such offers were bound to strike a chord in Belarus, a country suffering from 500% inflation, whose national currency, adorned with the image of a hare, is derisively referred to as the "bunny rabbit." Says Moscow economist Stanislav Zhukov: "The Belarussian economy is so unreformed, it has nowhere to go. It continues to produce goods that are so bad that even Russians don't want them...
...hours following the news that United Airlines employees had bought a controlling share (55%) of their own company, solidarity was breaking out everywhere. If the scenes were not made for commercials, they sure looked like it: outside United headquarters near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, senior UAL executives were grilling burgers on portable barbecues for mechanics and pilots, while many at the gathering sported buttons that read ASK ME, I'M THE OWNER. Meanwhile, newly anointed chairman Gerald Greenwald, a former vice chairman of Chrysler, was flying coach from New York City's La Guardia to O'Hare...
...with Hertz executives and ran into an old acquaintance, photographer Howard Bingham, on the plane. They chatted, mainly about golf, and O.J. seemed in a cheery mood. "I did not notice anything out of the ordinary," Bingham said, astounded when he heard the news later. Employees at the O'Hare Plaza Hotel said Simpson arrived at dawn, tired but upbeat. He hung around the front desk for a few minutes, joking with the staff and signing autographs before heading up to suite 915. A few hours later, after getting news of the murder by phone, he returned to O'Hare...