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...flawless" on its Tuesday touchdown at J.F.K. He acknowledges that individual planes have their quirks, but N93119, which he has flown about 60 times during the past 10 years, did not seem to have any. Indeed, there are only minor infractions on its Federal Aviation Administration record: a blown tire on takeoff in 1987 and a leaky oil line that resulted in an engine shutdown in 1988. And thus, at 8:02 p.m. on Wednesday, N93119 left the gate and taxied toward the runway. A few minutes later it would be in the air, flying eastward over the narrow, ragged...
...Subscribing to a good mailing list is like entering into heartfelt correspondence with world-class letter writers. Every day brings a fresh crop of E-mail from people who share your particular obsessions, be they garden herbs or firearms or the novels of Anne Rice. And if you ever tire of their daily epistles, you simply unsubscribe--that is, if you remember to save the sign-off instructions...
John Atkins, in his role as Elviro, Arsamene's servant, provides comic relief in a subtle, yet outwardly funny manner. In one scene, Atkins appears disguised as a flower-girl, wearing a large, tire-shaped plant holder around his waist and singing about the many varieties of flowers he sells. And near the opera's end, when after the three-and-one-half hour performance audience members have begun to fidget in their seats, Elviro proclaims, "I am really exhausted...
...said she wants to be "queen of people's hearts." Lately, doubtless because of her stressful situation, she has not been very active, at least in the public eye. After the divorce she will need some kind of channel for her enormous energies. Her detractors never tire of saying that she will end up in Texas or California--precincts of hell to Establishment toffs--but that is unlikely. No one has ever claimed that Diana is indifferent to her sons, and she will continue to be based in England, if only because the Queen would not allow the heir...
WATCHFUL COMMANDERS IN BOSNIA never tire of warning soldiers in their charge that there are any number of ways to meet death in the Balkans--and almost all come suddenly. It can sneak up from behind, directed by the cross hairs of a sniper's scope. It can clasp travelers in the muddy embrace of a collapsing mountain road. Or it can detonate from below--which is what happened at 3:45 p.m. last Saturday when Sergeant Donald Dugan, 38, of Belle Center, Ohio, reportedly manning a checkpoint near Tuzla, stepped to the side of the road and was killed...