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...airlines' secretive and sometimes high-handed manner doesn't help. Passengers are routinely herded onto planes and only afterward told they must endure an hourlong air-traffic delay. Big discount fares are advertised widely, but prices seem to slide up and down with little explanation. Nor will the airlines reveal how many discount seats are allocated on flights (the number varies according to demand for the flight, with the goal of maximizing revenue). And the airlines have drained most of the spontaneity from the nation's leisure-time travel, with those money-saving but anxiety-producing "nonrefundable" fares, which require...
...prominent part of my own Catholic education was the requirement of community service with substantive reflection afterward. During my senior year of high school, I worked in Our Little Haven, a home for infants born HIV-positive and drug-addicted. I spent three weeks there, and afterward spent many theology classes reflecting on its significance in my life and the lives of the children I touched. That education changed the way I looked at my relatively healthy, affluent and protected upbringing in suburban St. Louis, and it continues to color my observations of a highly individualistic, often cold and uncaring...
...Afterward, she and the President moved to the Oval Office and talked. According to Ms. Lewinsky: "[H]e was chewing on a cigar. And then he had the cigar in his hand and he was kind of looking at the cigar in...sort of a naughty way. And so... I looked at the cigar and I looked at him and I said, we can do that, too, sometime...
...after fans had waited 37 years, Mark McGwire hit his record-tying 61st home run of the season, and the next night he showed up for his prime-time network-television special to hit No. 62. The record-breaking shot was McGwire's shortest, lamest homer of the year. Afterward, we looked to the media to be told what the moral significance was. It was like someone brought in the writers from Home Improvement...
...Kerrey, followed Lieberman to the podium to say they agreed with him. Lieberman made his speech despite appeals from White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle that he hold off, at least until the President had returned from his trip abroad. But afterward Daschle came up and put his arm around Lieberman...