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...time, and it's your job to knock on the door and get them out for their own safety. Also, you can totally ask for the whole can of soda. Thanks to a few hours in a pool next to a plane hull, I now know how to ditch a plane too. People almost never survive a jumbo-jet water landing, but if you didn't put 55 swimsuited future flight attendants in a pool, you would have no chance of pitching a reality show, which I assume must be Delta's long-term business plan...
Preston's account of the crimes is lucid and mesmerizing. In one case, the victims realized what was happening, but in a panic, they drove their car into a ditch. The killer coolly shot out their headlights before going to work. What's missing from The Monster of Florence is the Monster: the killer was never caught. This isn't Preston's fault, but it hamstrings the book. The acme of the true-crime writer's art, what raises it above lurid rubbernecking, is making the psychology of a killer comprehensible, even sympathetic. In doing that, the true-crime writer...
...caused gasoline prices to rise by any amount. If that amendment ever went to a vote, it would force the bill's supporters to come out in favor of higher gas prices, and the Republican TV attack ads would produce themselves. No wonder moderate Dems wanted Reid to ditch the bill. At a meeting of Senate Democratic legislative directors, on Monday, June 2 - the day the Senate took up the bill - staffers were howling that Reid and Boxer were leading their bosses into the Valley of Death, forcing debate on a bill that didn't have the votes to pass...
Adam Clymer ’58, former president of The Crimson and chief Washington correspondent of the New York Times, is the author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (1999) and Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right...
...Osborne is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. His last-ditch plea to have his sentence commuted to life in prison was denied this morning by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, despite supportive letters from Georgia luminaries including former President Jimmy Carter and former deputy attorney general Larry Thompson - a Democrat and a Republican, respectively...