Word: though
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...EDWARD GOREY, 75, author and illustrator of more than 100 morbidly funny books; of a heart attack; in Yarmouth Port, Mass. A former book-jacket designer, he created such macabre classics as The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book in which A stands for "Amy who fell down the stairs." Though not a recluse, Gorey avoided the limelight (he declined a 1980 Tony Award for his gothic Dracula set design). Despite plaudits from critics such as Edmund Wilson, Gorey said that to take his work seriously would be "the height of folly...
Outside Gate 42 at Dulles airport last week, my emotions yo-yoed from giddy excitement to that other, dread traveler's feeling, deja vu. Though the sign under Legend Airline's Flight 3 said ON TIME, the gate agents kept announcing delay after delay because of bad weather. Here we go again, I thought; just another airline...
...exit row, buckled the seat belt, then tried to get my briefcase from under the seat in front of me. I couldn't reach it. My feet didn't reach the floor, either. These weren't plane seats; they were CEO chairs, meant for the big guys. Even though we hadn't taken off yet, I felt as if I'd already arrived...
...moment, anyway. Though the company's 1.7 million New York subscribers don't have much of a choice of cable providers - many city apartment buildings are not wired to receive satellite broadcasts - in markets like Milwaukee and Raleigh-Durham, viewers can relatively easily dismiss Time Warner in favor of satellite providers like Direct TV. And the cable giant may want to make amends quickly: After all, does Time Warner really have the stomach required to keep America away from its daily dose of Regis Philbin...
...much a practice in politics as it is in practicalities. The State Department's "Patterns in Global Terrorism" document released Monday emphasizes that most terrorist activity today emanates from groups independent of any state that can't easily be reined in by pressure on a government. Nonetheless, though the report focuses particularly on the upsurge in terrorist activity in Afghanistan and Pakistan - and uses the mention as a means to pressure those countries - it stops short of adding them to the official list of countries supporting terrorism...