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...FEEL FREE TO FOLLOW THE CABARET COROLLARY: YOU DON'T NEED A HAPPY ENDING "In real life, you don't make that last dash to the airport," says Carney, explaining the edgy ending of Once. His isn't the kind of musical you'll sing in the car on the way home, it's the kind you'll debate... before you pop in the soundtrack...
...welcome such as Serbia has rarely seen: more than 50,000 people gathered in a central Belgrade square on Sunday night to welcome home Marija Serifovic, the winner of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Prior to her arrival from Helsinki, police cleared the 16-km road from the airport into the city in order to speed her passage, and a banner draped across the City Hall read Ave Marija...
...component of the military's counterinsurgency strategy. "We're in competition with al-Qaeda," says Lieut. Colonel Dale Kuehl, "for who can protect the Sunnis better." Baghdad's Sunni population is largely confined to a narrow band west of the Tigris, extending from Mansour to the Baghdad airport. Kuehl and his 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment live in the middle of the Sunni stronghold, dug into a former police station. A floor-to-ceiling map of west Baghdad in Kuehl's operations center is marked with palm-size red arrows that show the Sunni population being squeezed top and bottom...
RAJIV MEHTA, OWNER OF AN INTERIOR-DESIGN company in New Delhi, has come to dread his frequent business trips in India. Typically his flight approaches its destination only to have to circle the airport because of congestion on the ground. Thanks to India's economic prosperity and the booming growth of its airline industry, more Indians are flying today than ever. But they are enjoying it less, because more than half of all domestic flights are delayed 30 min. or more. "We needed this boom because people need to travel and we need choice," Mehta says. "But in some ways...
Further consolidation is likely. India, which has 13 airlines today, will eventually have just two or three full-service carriers and three or four budget airlines, predicts Kaul. Their health may depend on how quickly planned airport improvements are completed. A new airport is scheduled to open in Bangalore next year; work is also under way on new terminals in New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay), with completion set for 2010 and 2012, respectively. The improvements can't come soon enough for travelers like Mehta. "We've got all these new planes and flights," says Mehta. "Finally they're starting...