Reviewers have noted the absence of anger in Stag's Leap; it is there, but diverted, rarely overt, only occasionally surfacing.
At Kennedy International Airport, flights were delayed by as much as eight hours, and many planes scheduled to land there were diverted to other airports, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reported.
The flap over Maraniss's "revelation" that Obama, in his 1995 memoir "Dreams from My Father," confected a composite girlfriend from his years in New York during the early eighties, and described at least one event that didn't take place there, has diverted attention from some of fascinating material Maraniss obtained from actual women who dated the future President.
She was dispatched to Esquimalt, British Columbia, in October 1914 to reinforce the weak British squadron there, then diverted to Honolulu, Hawaii, before the end of the month to watch the German gunboat after that ship arrived on 15 October.
Until quite recently, the Franschhoek valley was a place to pass through on your way to somewhere else: there wasn't enough there to divert you for long beyond the tea and craft shops, the obligatory wine tastings and the fascinating Huguenot Memorial Museum, which commemorates the arrival of the Protestant Huguenots, fleeing persecution in France, and their contribution to Afrikaner culture.
Part of the water there is diverted southward into the Sargasso Sea area.
The collapse of BHS – and the subsequent probes into what went on there – have diverted some of the attention away from the issue of whether the Sports Direct founder might bother gracing Westminster with his presence, having been summoned to answer questions on working conditions at his firm.
The calculation of maximum weight is already done separately for each flight by airline dispatchers, who note the prevailing winds and calculate how much fuel a plane must carry to reach its destination; circle in a holding pattern there; and divert to another airport if necessary.
The official conceded that some states on the list may be there to divert attention from the real targets, and Jenny Backus, a spokeswoman for the D.N.C., said the committee had not made "a final decision as to when we will go up, where we will go up, and what we will go up with".
The clowns are there to divert the animal in the event of a fall.
