Word: luck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a minute to go the Crimson killed theclock playing catch. Harvard could have gone for afew last shots but decided not to push its luck...
...Cleveland's vouchers are capped at $2,250--not unusual for a voucher, but far too little money to allow real choice in the private school market. A poor parent who wanted to use a voucher at the Hathaway Brown school in suburban Shaker Heights would be out of luck: tuition there costs more than $13,000 in the higher grades. The $2,250 vouchers work for religious schools because they receive charitable contributions from their churches, conduct fund raisers and keep salaries excruciatingly low. Starting pay for a Catholic school teacher in the Cleveland metro area...
...Squadron at Cervia, in northern Italy, has shot down four of the five Serbian MiG-29s killed so far. A lieutenant colonel, call sign "Rico," 40, scored one of those kills from his F-15C. "I was in the right place at the right time, and had a little luck," he says. "He ran into my missile." He had to wait for an AWACS to confirm that it was a foe before taking it on. "That all took about 20, 30 sec., but it seemed like it lasted an hour," he recalls. "Your hands, your eyes, your mouth--everything goes...
...next? Can I be the person I want to be?' For some, the dream comes true. For some, it doesn't. We look at the story of Anakin Skywalker, and it makes us wonder. Is that just a cast of the die? Is it our character? Is it luck...
...luck, as in Luke. And Luke, as in Lucas. Sixteen years ago, he filmed the end of his space story. Now, finally, he sits at the bedside of the child inside every moviegoer, lowers the lights and tells us the beginning. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" really means, "Once upon a time, in your dreams..." --Reported by Cathy Booth/Skywalker Ranch