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James Jeffords, 67, has represented Vermont in the U.S. Congress since 1974, when he was elected as the Green Mountain State's lone U.S. Representative. In 1988, his constituents voted him to the U.S. Senate, where he now holds the chairmanship of the Education and Labor committees. If he does leave the GOP to be either a Democrat or an independent, he will reportedly become chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Jeffords would also maintain his seat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee...
...This being the Internet, I'm obligated to tell you "The Lone Gunmen" was cancelled and "The X-Files" will return, without David Duchovny, but with Gillian Anderson, who will be dragged in screaming by a team of wild horses and the two-year contract she regretted signing the second "The House of Mirth" wrapped. There will also be a "Temptation Island 2." Which is as good a time as any to leave the assembled crowd now, as they embark below deck, for one final grueling round of eating giant cocktail shrimp, getting hammered and buying some...
...quiet part of the country during a quiet time of year. I stop the car in the middle of a main street, just to see if anything will happen. Sixty seconds - nothing. Two minutes - nothing. Five minutes - nothing. Finally, after I don't know how long, a lone pickup truck comes up the road. I watch in the rearview mirror as he approaches, and casually drives past me, giving me a mildly quizzical look, and keeps going on down around the road. I contrast this with the instant fusillade of honking, yelling, fist-waving and litigation that a microsecond...
...middle and long distances, sophomore Melissa Turner was the lone Crimson runner to place, taking sixth at 37:20.29. Sophomore Ashley Furst was a finalist in the 400, placed sixth in the 800-meter run and anchored the 4x800 relay team which also included juniors Samantha Piper and Leann Hymas, and freshman Beverly Whelan...
...Long ago, Charles Lindbergh embodied the chivalric attraction of flight - the lone eagle, soaring without boundaries in the purity of the upper air: "O, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth/ and climbed the sky on laughter-silvered wings." The aviation industry, with a sort of corrupt nostalgia, still uses rhetoric about "the freedom to fly." But Lindbergh ultimately became profoundly disgusted with the industry that he had pioneered. He ended life regarding air travel as mere squalor and aviation in general as one of the world's serious environmental problems...