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Imagine that there had been a series of three incidents in which members of a [invented for present purposes] fanatical Jewish sect had attempted to bring down airliners from Arab countries. In reporting on the latest attempt and describing the previous ones, do you think the New York Times might have mentioned the religion of the perpetrators? So do I. But with the ledgermain required to describe a spiral staircase without using one's hands, the Gray Lady has managed in its article today to report yesterday's attempt to bring down a NWA airliner, and the earlier attempts by Richard Reid...

Terror in the Colorado sky *** Brothers Paul Hopp, 64, left, and Conrad Hopp, 68, stand where their family farm near Longmont used to be and where United Flight 629 crashed. The men were in their teens on Nov. 1, 1955, and had finished dinner when the explosion rocked their house. They found bodies and debris strewn across their fields.