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...best drama series and a Golden Globe in 2006 for the same category—has been “utterly shocking.”“It’s kind of surreal,” he says.The show, a drama about a group of plane-crash survivors who end up on a seemingly deserted island has just finished its second season. It has garnered a devoted following of millions of fans, who have created blogs, message boards, and websites discussing its references to religion and philosophy.The challenge is striking a balance between creating mystery and not frustrating...
...government than for members of his own. Haditha is in the restive, Sunni-dominated Anbar province, and al-Maliki needs the support of Sunni politicians just to keep his government functioning. Ayad Jamaluddin, a secular member of Parliament, says al-Maliki's task is "to pilot a plane in which every single passenger has a different destination...
...what?s best about red- and blue-state America. I'm thinking of Malcolm Baldridge, who served under Ronald Reagan and died in a horseback riding accident in 1987, and Ron Brown, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who served under Bill Clinton and died in a plane crash while trying to promote economic development in the Balkans during the Bosnian war along with a slew of American executives he had brought with...
...Seatmates Peter Shankman sees air travel as a risky business. But it's not the plane he worries about. It's the empty seat on his left?and who's going to fill it. "You watch people coming down the aisle toward you and the theme from Jaws is playing in your head. You're thinking, 'Oh no, not this one' or 'That one looks like bathing is optional.'" So the 33-year-old U.S. marketing and P.R. executive created AirTroductions, an online service that matches up air travelers for business, friendship, romance?whatever you want from an in-flight...
...year into his papacy, there is a sense that this longtime behind-the-scenes Vatican figure has found his comfort zone under the public spotlight. This time he wasn't even scared off, as he was last August, when photographers and cameramen rushed to the front of the papal plane to catch a glance of the Pope just before takeoff. He even talked about the weather: "It doesn't have to be warm, but we just hope it doesn't rain!" he told reporters...