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...HARD (May 24). Leslie Nielsen in another spoof--not by the brothers Zucker, but you wouldn't guess that from the trailer. This one is James Bond with some Speed gags thrown in: the bus driver is Ray Charles ("Next stop, Melrose--I think"). No way to tell if the humor is sustained, since any farce will have enough decent gags to stock a trailer...
...whom to integrate and less criticism that Judge Arthur Garrity's order did little more than mix "poor blacks" with "poor whites." But it would be naive to imagine that most suburban whites would obediently put their children on the bus to the inner city. Suburban families might have thrown fewer rocks than did the working-class whites of Charlestown and South Boston, but I suspect that when the dust settled, many would have put their children in private or parochial schools, or found other means of evading the order...
...addition to some quality innings thrown by Crimson starting pitchers, another important factor will be minimizing the impact of Brown's Ravi Malick. Malick went on a tear a week and a half ago, smashing three home runs and picking up 10 RBI's over the course of six games...
Every child knows what it means to be caught red-handed, but not every judge does. The case was thrown out in January by Federal Judge Harold Baer Jr., who ruled that the cops lacked "probable cause" to search the bags. In a neighborhood where the police are known for being "corrupt, abusive and violent," Baer said, sprinting from the scene wasn't suspicious behavior at all. It was prudent...
...there's been airspace for everyone, although not without a few elbows being thrown. Lee Howard, president of Airline Economics International Inc., an industry consulting firm, estimates that 15% of domestic air traffic is now hauled by low-cost airlines, up from 10% little more than a year ago. According to Glenn Engel, an airline analyst at Goldman Sachs, the no-frills upstarts had revenues last year of $6 billion (out of an industry total of $75 billion to $80 billion), in contrast to $3 billion...