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...important aspect of this gelling process is new offensive line Coach Jim Turner. A Boston College graduate, Turner returned back to the Hub after an exemplary one-year stint as line coach at Louisiana Tech. That team led the nation in passing yards (402.1 yards per game), and was second in total offense. A lot of that fed off Turner's work on the line...
...long, we loyal, baseball-loving denizens of the Hub have foolishly suspended our disbelief, ignored our better senses, and laid out our ever-wishful souls, all for the sake of our bumbling Olde Towne Team. This year, more than any other, we showed up in droves to support our team, making thin our wallets as we set a Red Sox franchise record for season attendance. More fans passed through the turnstiles of Fenway Park in 2000 than in any previous season; the last 57 home games of the year were all sellouts...
...ensure that conditions stay as favorable for young, flexible travelers (as well as the rest of the flying public) more still must be done. The government must be particularly vigilant of monopolistic conditions at certain hub airports where the hub carrier frequently controls a majority of the flight slots. To do this, the Department of Transportation must not only open slots for start-ups and solid competitors at congested airports, but it must also do what it can to support new entrants. Just last week, for example, the federal government mysteriously denied Shuttle America, a new airline operating...
...with a soft, fine grit, like beige baby powder. And it is true that in March when the ground thaws, the mud on the road used to get so deep you had to put the car in second, and overrev the engine, bulling, bucking, half-surfing and jounce-bouncing hub-deep along the ruts through obdurate goo. If you stopped, you sank, and it took a tractor...
...prison she moved to 47 East Broadway, paying $3 million in cash, according to government sources, for a building directly across the street from a branch of the Bank of China, Beijing's central bank. She set up her restaurant in the building, and it quickly became a hub of the illegal Fujian Chinese community. It also became a major competitor of the bank. According to police and a number of Ping's clients, she used her connections in China to begin transferring money from those she smuggled back to their families in China. She proved more efficient than...