Does it fly?

I had much to learn, and Driscoll was ever the willing teacher.
Like the great artist Pablo Picasso had his Blue Phase, Dr. Driscoll at the time was in his bird period. He had perfected the use of birds in a lede, and he wanted all ledes coming out of the T-S newsroom to have that same resonance, that same lift, the same energy.
They need to take flight, he often said.

"MANILA -- The Board of Supervisors today will consider allowing Manila to poll its residents on whether they want fluoride added to their drinking water."