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...could accuse Willie Walsh of being downbeat in the face of adversity. "Being the ceo is great," says the boss of British Airways with a chuckle. "You get all the credit. And you get to blame other people when things go wrong." He's joking. He has to be, for if he lived by this credo, he would have been pointing his finger nonstop in recent months...
...after his four years as boss of the Irish carrier Aer Lingus "was easy," says Walsh. "I just multiplied everything by 10." That applied to problems too. When he arrived, the company's pension fund was short by almost $3 billion, more than the shortfall at any other major British firm. And the payroll for BA's 46,000 employees sucked up a bloated 30% of its costs...
HELEN MIRREN, British actress, while accepting an Emmy award for her performance in the PBS miniseries Prime Suspect...
...October 1860, during the Second Opium War, French and British troops sacked the summer palace. The destruction was one of the most humiliating moments of China's long period of colonial subjugation. During the attack the bronze heads were pried from their plinths and the looters took them around the world. The whereabouts of just seven are now known, and with this purchase five of those will be in China's hands. "Bringing back all the things from the Summer Palace, it's a kind of revenge, a way to avenge the humiliation," says Chiu Che Bing, a Paris-based...
There's been no shortage of surprises in the ongoing saga of Madeleine McCann, the 4-year-old British girl who disappeared from her family's vacation apartment in Portugal more than four months ago - the biggest shock occurring earlier this month when Portuguese police officially named her parents as suspects. Still, it was somewhat stunning when a YouGov poll published in the Sunday Times of London this week found that only 20% of Britons think Gerry and Kate McCann are completely innocent...