The photograph and the simple design of the lead article on the front page were what I first looked at today. The lead of the story was extremely effective and interesting: "Capt. William H. May noticed the man who started the trouble. The priest." Honestly, when I first read that paragraph I thought that I had read it incorrectly because those two ideas seemed so contradictory - trouble and a priest. As I continued to read, I learned the details of this story of a hijacking from 1972 that came to an end only this week. The details of this story are fascinating because I can not remember having read another article with a plot so out of the ordinary. This article contains one of the most memorable leads that I have read in a while.
To read something different today, I also skipped to the "Thursday Styles" section of the Times. This section covered a variety of subjects, from musicians (I use that word tentatively referring to Joe Jonas), to a popular cafe in Paris, to a new Gucci museum in Florence. I enjoyed all of these pieces because they can be written slightly more creatively and objectively than the usual news stories on the front page.
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