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...Mumbo Jumbo says: "No one says a novel...
...boarded the Aeroflot jumbo for Moscow I was feeling good vibes. With spring just around the corner the mood of the Russian people was bound to lift, and I couldn't wait to see Raisa Gorbachev in her new Easter outfit. I settled into my seat with a warm cup of borscht and a copy of Pravda--making a mental note to myself to find out what those damned little squiggles meant. By the time the jet roared off into the deep blue sky I was fast asleep...
...from the flight engineer: "There's a whale on the runway!" Another Northwest wide-bodied DC-10 had just left a taxiway and poked its nose into the path of the oncoming plane. "I see it," replied the amazingly cool captain of the departing aircraft. He abruptly jerked his jumbo jet into the air. His wing cleared the fuselage of the crossing plane by a mere 50 ft. There were 501 people on the two jets. They had barely avoided what would have been the world's second worst air disaster, akin to the 1977 collision of two Boeing 747s...
PUTTING THE WORDS "Supreme Court" and "campaign" together yields a phrase as oxymoronic as "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp." By requiring Justices to grovel before the people in order to garner votes, California--and most other states, for that matter--violates one of the most crucial tenets of American constitutionalism. For the judiciary to check and restrain the other two branches of government, judges must be free from the pressures of electoral politics. To elect judges--and thereby force them to be responsive to the whims of the electorate--is to sacrifice long-term justice to the political trends...
LONDON--Britain broke relations with Syria yesterday, charging that Syrian officials conspired with a Jordanian who was convicted hours earlier of trying to blow up an Israeli jumbo jet by smuggling a bomb on board in London...