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...hundreds of his customers sitting on unmoving planes for as long as 10 hours during the Valentine's Day snow. As flyer frustration mounts--just ask the United passengers who in December were diverted from Denver to a Wyoming airport and sat there as their emptied planes left to pick up people elsewhere--calls for a Passenger Bill of Rights are getting louder. The Senate introduced such a bill on Feb. 20, and a House version is coming soon. Here's how they stack up to JetBlue's new policy, which relies on that unfailing tool of appeasement: cash...
...does Perret pick the haberdasher from Independence, Mo., as his bête noire? Perret claims that Truman was addicted to a mysterious mind-altering substance that made him feel “in control” and invincible. The effects of the drug drove Truman to trample over legislative checks and balances. “When Truman went to war, some of it was Harry,” Perret writes. “The rest was chemistry...
...their child. It's easily the least interesting part of the book as it's also the most narcissistic of an already intensely self-involved work. It ends poorly, with pointless photos of her French chateau alongside a fatuous interview by her publisher. Filled with advice like, "shopping can pick you up, just by distracting you from grim realities..." It reads more like a spread from InStyle magazine than a continuation of the earlier, penetrating work. Giving benefit of the doubt, it could be read as failed sarcasm. If that was the point, the failure, interestingly, is in the lack...
Make the Bold Choice Harvard needs a visionary president, not a consensus pick By THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Harvard is badly in need of another Charles W. Eliot, a dreamer who will take risks and challenge the Harvard community to push itself to its limits...
...vending machine in the Cabot basement. There, I purchase a bag of Cheez-Its for $0.85. I finish the bag and sit for a half-hour as the baked snack crackers slowly dissolve from my teeth. First thing you notice about a girl: Her facebook profile. Your best pick-up line: Let’s get out of here lady, this place is clown town. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: In middle school, some friends and I made up this summer camp—Camp Pampernickel—and convinced one kid it was real...