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...Sweet Hereafter proved to be a landmark film for Egoyan because, against virtually all odds, it garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. For those who think that independent filmmakers look down their nose at the Oscars, Egoyan serves as a striking contrast to that notion...
Flight 261 never made it to the ground. After a long, agonizing struggle with the lurching aircraft, punctuated by two loud noises, the twin-engine MD-83 hurtled toward the Pacific in a grim death spiral--"spinning," "corkscrewing" and "nose down," in the words of eyewitnesses. When the plane made its high-speed crash into the water 40 miles from Los Angeles, all 83 passengers and five crew members were apparently killed instantly...
...crew of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 had a final, desperate plan to save the 88 lives on board. The plane seemed to be plummeting because a key mechanism had jammed in a position that was forcing its nose down. The crew radioed a company mechanic on the ground with an urgent plea: Were there any "hidden circuit breakers" that could cut off power to the horizontal stabilizer--the device they believed had taken deadly control of the plane? No, the mechanic replied, he didn't know of any. But as the plane temporarily stabilized, he signed off on an optimistic...
...Mitch McConnell, mainly because he thinks he's a creep. Indeed, except on one occasion, I have been unable to detect in McCain any of the usual Republican prejudices. That exception was when I told him I was moving to Berkeley, Calif. At the thought he wrinkled up his nose as if he'd just swallowed sour milk and said, "How could anyone live there?" I suppose everyone has his breaking point...
Consider consumer-products kingpin Procter & Gamble, which a couple of weeks ago stuck its nose into a three-way pharmaceutical fray involving Pfizer, Warner Lambert and American Home Products--hoping to come away with Warner Lambert and its cholesterol-reducing wonder drug Lipitor. P&G, maker of Cascade and Crest, knows about cleaning. But getting rid of plaque on your teeth and doing the same for your arteries are two very different businesses. Maybe that's why the P&G gambit fell apart last week. Still, this isn't the first time P&G has tried to branch...