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It’s amazing how one game of “Whoosh and Bong” can make up for dragging your suitcase into the Littauer parking lot at 4 a.m. to go to the airport. I’m not sure what higher force decreed for our freshman Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to leave for Biloxi, Miss.—which had been in the direct path of Hurricane Katrina—before dawn on Housing Day. But sharing housing assignments in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport?...
...President was visibly excited on the ride out to the airport and obviously engaged during the immense welcome ceremony the next day. The contrast between the swaggering born-again Texan and the cerebral Catholic scholar seems stark. Indeed, there is plenty to separate them, particularly their views of the Iraq war. But there is also much to unite them, especially at this moment in both their careers. They share a taste for straight talk and simple truths as weapons against doubt and denial: on stem-cell research, abortion and religious violence, they are brothers in arms. "We need your message...
...gathered around the table. They aren't rock stars; they're airline executives who work in outposts of the Virgin empire--San Francisco, Geneva and Brisbane--and they've heard this story before. Rather than bore them, Branson spends the next couple of hours dishing with his crew. Whose airport lounge can passengers use in San Francisco? (Alaska Airlines.) Is anyone making money flying direct to India? (American is, Chicago--New Delhi.) Which U.S. carrier will fall next? (ATA shuts days later.) We all gossip a bit about a Los Angeles politician. Everybody laughs, and Branson digs into his Greek...
...rest of us. The answer appears to be found instead in the realm of public image and power. Recent examples of resilient political couplings are not hard to find. Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s wife stood by him while he was accused of soliciting sex in an airport men’s restroom. More recently, Silda Wall Spitzer was there for her husband (and the press conference cameras) while he resigned as New York’s governor after getting caught up in an expensive prostitution ring...
Though I was pretty beered out by the end of my three-day stay, we made a pre-airport stop at a homey, British-style pub called the Bull & Bush, a microbrewery where the vintage-beer menu includes a bottle of Thomas Hardy's Ale from 1980 for $35 and a Chimay Grand Reserve from 1999 for $60. To my shock, while I waited for my delayed flight at Denver International, I stopped at the New Belgium Pub, where I had one of its malty Fat Tire ales. I don't know if there are any studies on this...