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...SOMEONE ORDER A PIZZA?While these concerns are certainly real—perhaps even widespread—many brand reps generally report positive feedback from their fellow students. McGugan, who was the Papa John’s pizza campus rep for three semesters before leaving to study abroad in Australia this fall, recalls that her job made her “quite a popular person in Kirkland House, and all around campus,” she said in an e-mailed statement. She recalls providing the Kirkland Stein Club and her brother’s suite of six in Mather...
...major carriers. Thailand has no fewer than seven low-cost operators. In September, Singapore's A-Sonic Aerospace said it plans to start a budget carrier in China with a Chinese state company. Tiny Singapore will be home to three low-cost airlines: Valuair, Jetstar Asia (which boasts Australia's Qantas Airways as a large shareholder) and Tiger Airways (backed by Singapore Airlines). "We'll grow as quickly as we can and fly wherever we can," vows Stephen Johnson of Indigo Partners, an investment company based in Phoenix, Ariz., that owns 24% of Tiger. But for all those grandiose dreams...
...first thing to mistrust, should you be an American thinking of going to Australia for the first time, is your idea of the place and its people. Probably you think the 2000 Sydney Olympics is a vastly important event for all of us, a huge national rite that will "put us on the map"--the same map, presumably, on which the last Australian Olympics, in Melbourne in 1956, failed to inscribe...
...think Australians are rather like Americans and that we want to be more so. Dead wrong. No idealism attended the birth of Anglo-Australia. White colonization in America began as a religious venture; the Puritans thought they were, literally, creating God's country. Australia, by contrast, began as the continent of sin, the dump for English criminals. Australians, unlike Americans, have never felt they had a mission or a message for a fallen world. There is no doctrine of Australian exceptionalism. If this deprived us of the heights of American moral expectation, it spared us from the anguish of American...
...fierce democratic commitments that hardly exist in America. It is, for example, a (lightly) punishable offense not to vote in a national election. As for campaign contributions, and all the corruption and perversion of democracy that the pursuit of them creates in the U.S., they don't exist in Australia; a whole national election costs less to stage than a California primary. You don't need to be rich or a plutocrat's pet to run for office here...