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...scant consolation to frequent flyers coping with Ouija-board ticket prices, jammed cabins and Munchkin-friendly coach seats, but the U.S. airline industry has reached cruising altitude. Last year it posted a $2.5 billion profit. Compare that with the $13 billion in losses the carriers had piled up since 1990--roughly equivalent to all the profits earned in the history of American commercial aviation--and the industry ought to be smiling, or at least unbuckling its seat belt and raising a $5 martini in a plastic...
...addition to these "smaller" services, Rudd has been responsible for a number of the council's most successful "big-ticket" projects--things like the Gala Ball, SpringFest (remember the free beer?) and a $12,000 (20 percent) increase in the student group grants fund...
Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, who is running on a ticket with Hyman, said that although the council isn't perfect, "the point is we're going in the right direction...
...long label "Lincolnesque." The image propelled Muskie to two terms in the Maine statehouse and 21 years in the U.S. Senate. There, his environmental concerns earned Muskie the nickname "Mr. Clean," part of a low-key liberalism that landed him the vice-presidential slot on the Democrats' failed 1968 ticket. But the presidential nomination eluded Muskie four years later. In the New Hampshire primary, he was the front runner but was overcome with emotion--crying, according to some--after an attack on his wife by the Manchester Union Leader. Shortly after, his campaign sputtered. Muskie left the Senate...
...wrestling. Well, as Tom Humphries wrote in the Irish Times, "it took five, maybe 10 seconds for the beery, testosterone charged crowd in the MGM [Grand] Garden to realize they weren't watching a novelty act...The mixture of ferocity and serious boxing skills left the most chauvinistic ticket holders gape-mouthed." Equally awed were the millions who saw the fight on pay-per-view. For days afterward, conversations about the Tyson fight invariably segued toward the women. Christy Martin has become an overnight sensation. "We've had calls from Japan, Canada and Regis and Kathie Lee," says Jim Martin...