Coll swung his big leather bag onto the diesely floor beside the driver's seat.

Yet traditional history writing, preoccupied with that history of the victors Benjamin so memorably pinpointed, would have transferred its scribely allegiance without effort to the side of 'Power' in any case.

As testimony during the Safety Board’s June 2005 public hearing on the Pinnacle Airlines accident indicated, neither Bombardier nor GE considered core lock to be a safety-of-flight issue. The manufacturers claimed that engines that passed the screening procedure, with or without grind-in rework, would not core lock as long as the 240-knot airspeed was maintained.

He considered himself to be a Yugoslav first and foremost, regardless of his Croat and Serb ancestry.