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...record numbers of travelers crowd into airports, the question of safety is on many minds. Just the thought of hurtling miles above the ground inside a slender aluminum tube is enough to give some people sweaty palms. Even frequent flyers often breathe a sigh of relief when their plane at last touches down...
...must have out-coached Joe Pa, if only in the area of sideline composure, Oklahoma's good-times coach was as graceful and considerate later as Shaffer. "In the '50s, coaches may have made the difference," he said, "but you don't outcoach anymore. Players win now." With a sigh not a bellow, Switzer proclaimed, "We survived Bowl Day. That gives us the national championship." As for next year, he advised pretenders, "You've got to be good, got to be lucky and got to have other people help you." Oklahoma's aid came from New Orleans, where Miami...
...greater happiness than a kid's wish granted. Back then, my jaw dropped when the screen filled with spaceships of all varieties, battles with supreme fighters and characters I wished could be my closest relatives. As an adult, I hope the new Star Wars movie makes me sigh like a child again. Federico Fossombroni Rome The Hillary Factor Joe Klein's column "Hillary in 2008? No Way!" spelled out why it's a bad idea for Senator Clinton to run for President [May 16]. I agree with much of Klein's assessment of Hillary's possible candidacy. What the Senator...
...campus appearance by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, taking a seat in the front row of Fong Auditorium and reading loudly from an old Bible. Clad in a white evening gown, the guest turned around ominously whenever anyone asked a question. The room breathed a collective sigh when she gathered her things and left. “Who was she?” Morris asked after making sure she was out of earshot. Jesus...
...pleasantly plump Americans were stepping a little lighter. A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had just concluded that folks who are overweight but not obese are at no greater risk of dying prematurely than people of normal weight. You could almost hear the national sigh of relief in the newspaper articles, radio talk shows and monologues of late-night comedians that followed. "I can't tell you how happy this makes me," David Brooks wrote in the New York Times, which devoted a front-page story, an editorial and two Op-Ed pieces...