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THINK LIKE AN AGENT. If you live in a major city and want the broadest choice of flights, many sites will let you enter a city code (such as CHI for Chicago, NYC for New York City and WAS for Washington) instead of a specific airport name. Another trick is to log in around midnight central time, when many reservations expire and are dumped back into the pool of available flights. Around Christmas, avoid Dec. 22, 23, 24, 26 and 27. If you don't mind flying on Christmas Day, you'll get the lowest rates...
...wrote that today's journalism is full of "legions of shameless, agenda-driven, power-mad hacks who believe that the news is a vehicle to bring you them." Couldn't you have at least worked my name in there...
...election was Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a political figure considered old hat by everyone except the voters. The big loser was the Canadian Alliance's Stockwell Day, a political figure considered fresh and exciting by everyone except the voters. (I think the Alliance, a new party, chose an unfortunate name, by the way. What would you call one of its followers--an Alliance-ite?) There were two other candidates, both of whom managed to do better than Ralph Nader without being nearly as sanctimonious...
...that while the American candidates were exchanging trumped-up numbers about the cost of prescription drugs, Canadians, thanks to a CBC television program's campaign to satirize the Alliansistas' belief in national referenda, were gathering signatures for a referendum that would require Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris...
...Name confusion...