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...history of airline mergers, though, might suggest otherwise. Success stories - Air France and KLM in Europe; Delta and Northwest in the U.S. - are rare. Of the dozens of deals struck in the U.S. since the airline industry was deregulated in the late 1970s, most are considered flops. "I compare it to two drunks, where you assume that if they hold on to each other, they will walk straight," says Adam Pilarski, senior vice-president of U.S. aviation consultancy Avitas. He points to the bungled 2005 merger of US Airways and America West, and adds, "That's usually not the case...
...Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). By donating the proceeds of the event to benefit the China Tomorrow Education Foundation, Project East will help build a school in rural China. Organized by executive producers Tamara Harel-Cohen and Alexandra Clarke, Project East will take place November 14, in the Northwest Labs...
Alexandra Clarke: The tent was a really cool idea, but it wasn’t very practical. Many people ruined their shoes last year. The Northwest Labs is actually a cool modern artistic gallery/warehouse space. Since we don’t have to pay as much as we had to for the tents, we have extra money to do lighting, set design, a cooler runway space, chairs, and to create a very professional-looking show...
...give us the grant. We really had to re-evaluate the show and decide what to keep. As a result we cut our budget so much that we’ll probably raise double what we did last year... We’re getting the space [in Northwest Labs] for a steal, but it was somewhere we always wanted to do in spite of the budget cuts...
...colorfully elegant tribute to the people of the once-Taliban-ravaged Swat Valley. "It was all about those people who sacrificed their livelihoods for our safety," says Khan. "The embroidery was all Swat-based." The hats were tastefully tweaked versions of those worn in Chitral, in the northwest's mountains...