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...marketing campaign that seeks to win over consumers. And the travel industry has been busy making sure the technology works perfectly before launch. "It's all a question of how it's presented to the consumer," Wilson says. Travel agents will be automatically given the prompt to ask for the donation as they process an order. Online, a new box will show up in the shopping cart just before customers are asked for their credit-card details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Airline-Ticket Tax to Aid the Developing World | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Bank of America executives regular updates about the deteriorating profits at the investment bank. In a response to a Dec. 3 e-mail detailing nearly $1 billion in additional Merrill trading losses, Neil Cotty, B of A's chief accounting officer, responded, "BTW ... thank you for this ... they did ask ..." Importantly, none of the e-mails say the information on Merrill's losses was needed before presentations being made to Bank of America's CFO Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rise and Sudden Fall of Bank of America's Ken Lewis | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Sarkisian says. “It’s just incredible. We have a handful of guys who are All-Ivy caliber receivers. You combine all those receivers with a great offensive line and a great running game—that’s all you can ask...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '09: Quarterback Position Battle Takes Center Stage | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...after publicly coming out as gay on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” in March. Since receiving the notification from the Army, Choi has made it his mission to attack the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on a “moral basis.” “Before I learned how to salute, march in step, execute commands, and before I received a single push up for executing them incorrectly, I learned the honor code, that...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel and Margherita Pignatelli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Openly Gay Lt. Reflects on Former Service | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...might say, inherent) psychedelia. The novel really does feel shaggy and baggy, because the normally lean detective genre has had to loosen up to accommodate Pynchon’s wild narrative loops and quixotic scenic fancies. When the dentist’s secretary pauses a plot-advancing conversation to ask Doc’s friend—“Excuse me, . . . is that a slice of pizza on your hat?” —the irksomeness of the interruption overshadows the humor of his response (“Oh wow, thanks man, I’ve been...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pynchon's Noir "Inherently" Minor | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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