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...prices to match those of American's coach tickets, offers additional perks that include gourmet cuisine, power outlets for laptop computers, and flight attendants trained by the company that schools employees of the Ritz hotel chain. Says Legend chief executive Allan McArtor, 57, a silver-haired former Vietnam fighter jock and past head of the Federal Aviation Administration: "Air travel today is an endurance test...
...Women garner better ratings than men on ESPN and sell out casinos. Even Hollywood has taken notice. At the Sundance film festival in January, Girlfight, about a woman who finds fulfillment through boxing, won a prize for drama. On the Ropes, a documentary featuring Tyrene Manson, an aspiring pro fighter training for the Golden Gloves, was nominated for an Oscar. "Especially with the growth of the amateur program, it's here to stay," says former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield. "The women can fight...
Betsy McCaughey Ross, a former Lieutenant Governor of New York, is a fighter. When Republican Governor George Pataki dumped her as his second-term running mate in 1997, she switched parties and made a bid to unseat him. Today she is fighting another former partner, millionaire financier Wilbur Ross, whom she married in 1995 and is now divorcing. At the center of their dispute is her claim that she was forced to sign a document that is suddenly becoming an accessory to many modern marriages: a postnuptial agreement. That's right--after the vows, not before...
...initiated the widespread suppression of manliness. "We have the example of the elite young men dodging the draft," Wolfe observes. The efforts of America's top warriors went into avoiding combat rather than embracing it. These men and their apologists had to destroy the ideal of the male fighter to justify saving their own skin. Manliness never disappeared, but popular culture stopped celebrating it, says the author of A Man in Full. Warrior images--the army sergeant, the astronaut--became "feminized" as women joined the ranks. And all the while, the male ego percolated...
...store for Bush, it's only a question of time until this runoff reaches its full promise as a spectacle that will have Vince McMahon and Don King bickering over the pay-per-view rights. Gore built his primary campaign on the slogan "I'm a fighter, I want to fight for you," and he's never been one to turn the other cheek to political mudslinging. The fight's already on: Wednesday, Gore contrasted the booming economy under the Clinton-Gore administration to the "mess" of the Bush-Quayle recession...