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...Londoners believe a city is a noble and costly test of endurance - like a Merchant-Ivory film. Show them a studio flat an hour from the city center and they silently fork over their savings. Charge them ?8 for a restaurant sandwich or ?60 for a cab to the airport and they say, "Cheers!" But use just a little trumped-up evidence to get them to help you invade a country and they go ballistic. They're a funny people. I tell my London friends that they are being cheated. I rage about the cost of public transport and inform...
Europe's budget airline passengers have become used to seats that don't recline and onboard bottled water that costs extra. Coming soon: the no-frills terminal. As early as 2006, airports in Marseille and Geneva plan to open terminals catering to low-cost airlines; Kuala Lumpur and Singapore may follow. "Don't expect carpeting," warns Loïc Chovelon, spokesman for Marseille Provence Airport, which plans to spend up to 314.5 million to convert an old cargo facility into a spartan self-service terminal. Passengers will collect their tickets from automated booths and, after clearing security, tag their...
...anything, the public's admiration for him grew in the years after he left office--not least because of a fervent effort on the part of his admirers to exalt him. His disciples, having already lobbied for Washington's airport and a major office building and aircraft carrier to be named for him, are at work having a public building in his honor in all U.S. counties, and perhaps his face on the $10 bill. Popular affection and admiration ultimately mixed with sympathy once he revealed his battle with Alzheimer's in 1994. "At the moment I feel just fine...
...romantic quest to surprise Lynch, VanLare distributed her picture to a dozen airport employees as well as a rose to hand to Lynch as she made her way from the jetway to the baggage claim. When the suspicious Lynch arrived at the baggage claim, VanLare was waiting with another dozen roses and a ring...
...also made it a priority to make it to all the important social events of her senior year—flying straight to the Harvard-Yale game after a concert in Pittsburgh and practically sprinting through the Toronto airport in order to make a connection back from her concert in Edmonton to the Senior Soiree...