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...refused to play by the rules, essentially ignoring the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the governing body that ran the airline business almost as a cartel. When SIA became the first IATA carrier to serve free drinks in economy, in 1972, the group's director dismissed the Asian upstart as a "parasite...
Such an insight was supposed to be a great strength of Citigroup, which combined a venerable global bank (founded as the City Bank of New York in 1812) with the upstart financial supermarket that Weill, the Brooklyn-born son of Polish immigrants, put together in the second act of his remarkable career...
...This latest campaign for upstart Nolita clothing is perhaps his most self-conscious and multi-layered, marketing a woman's fashion line in an effort to expose the problem of anorexia in fashion marketing. Toscani says people react to it because many suffer from a kind of "social anorexia" of deprivation and disappointment amidst the abundance of modernity. The nude image of the emaciated 26-year-old French actress in poses we are used to seeing struck by fashion models is indeed relentless in its rawness. Toscani says. "I always try to strip away and strip away until I arrive...
...This season alone, McLeod has 564 yards on 102 carries (what!?) and 12 (yeah, 12) touchdowns. It’s understandable why the Bulldogs run three times as much as they pass—it works. The Yale ground game is simply too much for the upstart D-men to handle.Prediction: Yale 34, Dartmouth 14PRINCETON (2-1, 1-0) VS. NO. 21 HAMPTON (3-1)Factoid courtesy of football beat writer Brad Hinshelwood: This is only the second matchup between an Ivy team and a squad from a historically black college, and the first in 23 years. Hampton (most famous...
...only serious obstacle could be the same thing that helped Blanco edge out her upstart opponent in 2003 - the impression that Jindal is an overachieving bureaucrat who has little empathy for the poor in a largely poor state. A Rhodes scholar whose parents arrived in the U.S. from India just months before he was born, Jindal was selected to run the state's Department of Health and Hospitals by Blanco's predecessor, two-term Republican Mike Foster, at the ripe old age of 24. The Baton Rouge native guided the bloated department through a rough period of cutbacks, both...