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...school for four months during the fall semester now lay in a tangled mess strewn across the platforms of suburban rail stations and along the narrow tracks on their approach to the Atocha train station. Dear friends, many of whom shared the daily commute with me, remained an ocean away, out of direct contact. Luckily no one I knew was hurt...
...place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke and con men and cardsharps like Bret Maverick. Today--The Cooler and the Ocean's Eleven remake notwithstanding--we more often root for the overdogs, the entrepreneurs and the security chiefs who use military-grade surveillance technology to protect their shekels from card counters and scammers. "Nobody cheats in my casino!" exults Caan in Las Vegas, even though "his" casino actually belongs...
...coast of New Jersey. He quickly rounded up a dirty dozen of recreational divers, including a Vietnam veteran named John Chatterton, and sailed out for a look-see. A quick underwater peek revealed that the wreck was, unbelievably, a World War II--vintage German U-boat, nestled on the ocean floor. Nobody--not the Navy, not the historians, not even the few surviving German U-boat captains--knew what it was doing there...
...demise. It's also a midlife-crisis fable about a bunch of ordinary Joes in their 30s and 40s looking for something other than their crumbling marriages and pedestrian day jobs to give their lives meaning and focus. They just happen to find it at the bottom of the ocean...
...sinking California sun turned soft red and a breeze ruffled the hillside when Ronald Reagan was laid to rest on the magnificent stage created for his last bow. As the final taps floated out over the shimmering Pacific Ocean, Nancy Reagan held the flag from his casket close to her. She was worn but still resolute from the long week of farewell...