1.   Because his sound-world is leaner, his playing sometimes seems more direct, carrying less historical baggage.

2.   And so it is not strange that, with this much historical baggage, skepticism abounds when an American administration again begins to move against a potential internal menace.

3.   Beyond that, Palestinian friends pointed out that the Jewish National Fund carries its own historical baggage.

4.   But the glue that holds all this together is the promise of personality suited to the office, yet free of historical baggage.

5.   Canada travels light, carrying very little historical baggage when it arrives in a place like Zaire.

6.   Mars, they say, is a fresh start, a place to get away from guilty historical baggage.

7.   The glue that is supposed to hold all this together is his promise of personality suited to the office, yet free of historical baggage.

8.   Bearing historical baggage for good and for bad, Vietnamese-Americans are returning to their homeland to do business.

9.   But using such a term, loaded with historical baggage about religious wars, could alienate moderate Muslims that the United States needs, some experts caution.

10.   So they turned to an outsider, someone unencumbered with the historical baggage that might have weighed down a British director.