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...shake. That prompted a hurried announcement over the intercom: "Don't panic. The flight - it's OK." Passengers aboard the aging Russian plane laughed or glanced out the window at the lush Liberian countryside below. Most of them were used to flying West Africa's skies. An air pocket was nothing. An engine falling off - that would be something to worry about. A few minutes later the plane had landed safely and the passengers, most of them bound for Freetown in neighboring Sierra Leone, were ushered into the airport's basic transit lounge...
...going to hurt this guy." Bush didn't plan to hurt Kennedy either. He later invited the Senator to a White House screening of Thirteen Days, the movie about J.F.K.'s handling of the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy had talking points on legislation tucked into his pocket, but all Bush wanted to do was munch hot dogs and watch the film. "The President has a lot of respect for Senator Kennedy," says senior White House adviser Karen Hughes. "He thinks the Senator is very savvy, that he's a good legislator and that he's a person of his word...
...promise of sharp political satire is lost on the way to a generic cartoon of a greedy corporation oppressing the masses. But when was the last time even sophomoric left-wing agitprop was the subject for a musical--much less one that's so entertaining? The vest-pocket production has outsize energy, as does the terrific, beefy Kurt Weill-like score by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis. They aim for comic-operatic heights and keep the audience soaring...
...Evil works by sleight of hand: Poof! Your child is gone. Her life and all the details of it - clothes, computer, pocket book and so on - are just as she left them. But her keys are missing. And she is...where...
...retirement home, his disjointed homily on being nice left the room befuddled--and mentioned no issues. The press ripped him for it. The next day, as he settled into the back of a black SUV, where Bloomberg radio was playing and a Bloomberg magazine was tucked into a seat pocket, Bloomberg dismissed those stories. "As long as they spell my name right, fine," he says with a shrug. "I've got to learn the issues, learn how to dialogue, learn the jargon," he admits. Former Mayor Ed Koch thinks Bloomberg is admitting too much. "That's the wrong thing...