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...similar deals was an appeal for low-cost solidarity, the two airlines were having none of it. Both concentrate on major airports in major cities where the pickings are not so sweet, though O'Leary predicted that the deal easyJet announced two weeks ago for a new 11-route base at Berlin's Schönefeld Airport would also fall foul of the forthcoming judgment. Toby Nicol, easyJet's head of corporate affairs, dismisses that prospect: "What Michael is trying do is take a problem which is his and try and pretend that other low-cost airlines will be affected...
...that the whole thing never happened. In any case, Spears was well enough by Oct. 27 to guest-star on the V Graham Norton show, a bawdy late-night chat program hosted by a flamboyantly gay Irishman. Not exactly the sort of telly aimed at Spears' more established fan base of 10- to 14-year-old girls. "We're hoping to pick up a gay audience with this album," says Larry Rudolph, the New York City-based manager who's been guiding Spears since she was 15. "You know, in the same way Madonna and Cher appeal...
Aesop, a.k.a. Ian Bavitz, has been developing both his flow and his fan base for several years now, beginning with a string of self-released discs. He is referred to by some as the exemplar of “backpack rap,” a strain of hip-hop supposedly characterized by intellectual rhymes and nerdy beats—what Aesop refers to as “the cliché of a white kid with a backpack...
...runs don’t make money. “Ninety percent of the students I deal with do not turn a profit,” Frumin says. “Most choose not to. They charge a minimal amount.” Generally, a group will charge a base price for admission, which Frumin says fluctuates constantly depending on the venue, the night and the event, and sell well in excess of the break even point, which generally hovers around 100 to 200 people. But any surplus is generally plowed back into the party itself for amenities like food...
...committee said the distribution requirements don’t effectively guarantee that students graduate with any sort of specific knowledge base or set of skills...