Word: final
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...slowly setting behind me as my campaign paddle wheeler, the Mark Twain, steams into port in Hannibal, Missouri - the final stop on a nearly 400-mile trek down the Mississippi River. As you know from your own trip down this great waterway (captured in a recent special issue of TIME magazine), life on the Mississippi is nothing short of spectacular...
...then of course there was today. As I write this, the final stop on the tour is still to come, but our journey down the Mississippi has already been a great learning experience for us all. TIME magazine was right - a trip down the Ole Miss allows you "to hear, from a very local perspective, some of the great issues we face as a nation." I saw first hand how working families need a champion to stand up and fight for them. I heard from folks whose voices have been muted by the powerful special interests. And I learned that...
...calling Kelly, Rich, Rudy and Susan the Final Four an insult to the college basketball tournament...
...real Final Four should get such ratings. In fact, NCAA officials are hoping to benefit from the additional publicity-by-association. Plus, they're both reality-TV shows on CBS. The network's lawyers were able to hammer something out with each other...
...what we've all been waiting for. But it gives none of us what we were hoping for. Answers and a sense of completion are both missing as the National Transportation Safety Board prepares to issue its "final report" on the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800. The plane's fiery demise, in which all 230 aboard were killed, was, it seems, a freak accident - a conclusion that, while comforting in its own way, as it nudges out the possibility of a serious design defect in the 747 model, provides the victims' survivors with little sense of closure...