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...under a rock or very happy with your current service. Now that carriers have followed through on the FCC mandate to let customers take their numbers with them when they switch to another service providers, industry estimates suggest that, before the year is out, 13 million people will jump ship with their 10-digit number...
...passengers struck by gastroenteritis this month on the cruise ship Aurora can attest, holidays sometimes go very wrong. Mediterranean ports refused to allow the ship entry for fear of contagion, and irate travelers have threatened to sue. But what rights would you have in a similar fix? Not many. Airlines and cruise operators owe their passengers a "duty of care" not to expose them to unreasonable risk. If the company has breached this (e.g. with inadequate hygiene), then you may have cause for compensation. But proving that can be difficult?the spread of a contagious virus in an enclosed setting...
...passengers struck by gastroenteritis this month on the cruise ship Aurora can attest, holidays sometimes go very wrong. Mediterranean ports refused to allow the ship entry for fear of contagion, and irate travelers have threatened to sue. But what rights would you have in a similar fix? Not many. Airlines and cruise operators owe their passengers a "duty of care" not to expose them to unreasonable risk. If the company has breached this (e.g. with inadequate hygiene), then you may have cause for compensation. But proving that can be difficult - the spread of a contagious virus in an enclosed setting...
...this malaise is as general as Agbonyitor and Franekova suggest, why don’t more Harvard students jump ship? Chris Cowan, a former member of the Class of 2005 who transferred to Stanford, asserts that Harvard’s social mores override student dissatisfaction. “Even with all my complaints, Harvard was a hard place to walk away from,” he writes in an e-mail message. “The culture there is either you love it or you’ll suck it up because the name is worth it. Most people, even...
...grandfather, Roy Insley Jennelle, passed away gently on Tuesday. He faced his last Veterans’ Day like each Nov. 11 before it—with solemn pride. He served the Navy in the Pacific during World War II, where his ship struck a mine and sank. He survived to a Purple Heart and a multitude of questions—first among them, why he deserved a different fate than those shipmates who died in the 12 hours before rescue arrived. As a religious man, such questions were supposed to have answers...