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...created post of FAA chief operating officer to break through the institutional gridlock - from the Environmental Protection Agency (which evaluates environmental impact) to the Department of Transportation (which approves new airlines and routes). The COO has to behave like an air czar. "Somebody needs to knock some heads," says Bob Francis, a former FAA official who was vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board...
...gives Harvard a strong 7-5 record against non-league competition and an impressive 5-0 record against America East teams. Given last year's poor 0-4 showing against America East, this season's marked improvement prompted Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan to quip after the game that Harvard should petition the NCAA for the America East tournament...
...just read your contrasting articles on the dignified Laura Bush [NATION, Jan. 8] and her ambitious, material-girl predecessor, Hillary Clinton. It's great to know there's going to be at least one adult in the White House again. BOB PUTMAN Schaumburg...
...once-riveting Bud Bowl, has bought 10 of CBS' $2.3 million 30-second spots. Pepsi will be all over the place, as will FedEx and Visa. EDS, who last year gave us the "cat herders" treat, is back with a running-of-the-squirrels Pamplona thing. And Bob Dole is hawking - well, it's sort of a surprise, which we won't spoil in case the game's a stinker...
...some legitimate free-speech problems with a soft-money ban and the iron hands of Lott and chief Senate fund-raiser Mitch McConnell. (He who controls the reelection money controls many a politician, and yes, that was McConnell emceeing Bush's inaugural.) Most Democrats, chief Democratic fund-raiser Bob Torricelli first among them, find that their yen for reform tends to wane as soon as a meaningful bill is in actual danger of passage...