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...appreciate their elegance, even on the picket line. Alitalia pilots and flight attendants, dressed in their crisp black-and-green uniforms and aviator sunglasses, have spent decades stylishly shepherding the world to Italy, and Italians abroad. More recently, the handsome crews have also done their part - with plenty of help from Alitalia's inept senior management and shortsighted Italian politicians - to steer the airline on a crash course toward bankruptcy...
...well. You’re happy to hear a teammate playing well and helping your team even if he’s beating you.” It was a particularly special treat to play on the well-respected Red Course at Bethpage, a neighbor to the Black Course, where the U.S. Open will be played in 2009. Players in this week’s tournament could see officials preparing the course in anticipation of the June major. This year’s team is a much more consistent, able, and cohesive bunch, as indicated by the mere nine shot...
...force. She and Frederick were kind to each other now, almost gentle. They spoke little. What could they possibly have to say?She was contemplating a return to the bougainvillea--it couldn’t hurt--when she saw Frederick ambling towards her. His thin body was clad in black, and he had allowed his hair to grow long and shaggy.The look did not suit him, Felicity thought dispassionately.“Good afternoon, dear,” Frederick began hesitantly. “I trust you are recovered?”Felicity did not deign to reply...
...hater, I am a lover of Andrea Levy’s “Small Island.” I picked up the novel this summer because my mother was reading it for her book club. It’s hard not to compare Levy to Smith: both are black, female British authors of Jamaican heritage. More importantly, both produce works that focus on counteracting the dominant voices in British and American history by illuminating an alternative discourse. But in “Small Island,” Levy succeeds where Smith falls short.Levy dexterously handles the profound and complicated...
Named after the Russian-born novelist who celebrated in her writings the risk-taking individual (and put the black hat on a snivelling, forgiving government that wouldn't let mediocre enterprises and their leaders fail), the center is a lonely beacon of small government and private enterprise in Washington at a time when big government appears to be on the comeback. Black-and-white photos of the controversial writer sit on desktops here; her many novels fill most of the bookshelves; in one office, a blowup of her postage-stamp image (something Rand probably would have abhorred -government embrace...