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...plane design that airlines will buy, passengers will like and bean counters will love. It's a subsonic fuel-efficient jet the company rather inelegantly calls the 7E7. The 7E7, a midsize, 200-seat aircraft that is designed to fly so-called point-to-point routes nonstop, stands in stark contrast to the massive, 555-seat double-decker Airbus A380 that will probably keep to traditional hub-and-spoke networks when it starts flying commercially...
...Many readers saw striking resemblances in Ruven Afanador's stark cover photograph of Johnny Cash. "That magnificent face had the appearance of one of America's Founding Fathers or a pioneer who pushed westward over the Appalachian Mountains," wrote a Floridian. Asked a woman from New Jersey: "Was that a picture of Cash or of another musical icon, Ludwig van Beethoven?" And a Rhode Islander offered her thanks "for the wonderful cover portrait of Cash. It is as beautiful as a Rembrandt etching and as welcome as a snapshot from a friend...
...muddling through." Last Friday Cape Town Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the most liberal of Africa's primates, proposed that a commission be set up to study how the church might learn to live with its disagreements on this issue, just as it did on women's ordination. "Reducing issues to stark polarizations may make good television," he said, "but it is not a constructive approach." In Dallas, Anderson insisted that unless Robinson's election is retracted, "We split." Then he asserted that even in the face of a demand by the primates, such a retraction "is as likely as daisies growing...
What should emerge from the stark contrast between Dean’s rhetoric and a more careful consideration of special-interest politics and voters’ general approval of Bush is that the Democrats need a message. Dean may succeed in the primaries by eschewing substantive platforms in favor of wearisome Bush-whacking, but that same strategy from a Democratic candidate in the general election will not win the party the White House...
...tell a male friend I want to be more than friends? Answer: “You don’t. Sorry. You just don’t tell him… God made guys to be the leaders.” This, she argued, is in stark contrast to other girl-power-styled messages of the magazine...