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...passenger, I'm not sure how you can avoid paying the fees, other than weighing your luggage at home on a scale," says Brandon Macsata, executive director of the Association for Airline Passenger Rights. "You can certainly say you're not going to pay it, but then the airline can say you're not getting on the plane...
...Over Him" at the Avenue Inn B & B gives you three nights' accommodation for you and a friend, along with two pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, a voo-doo doll and a copy of He's Just Not that Into You, so you can avoid tragic mistakes in the future. Get back on the horse with a New Orleans Cocktail Tour, and recover the next day with a massage at a local day-spa. $369 per person for three nights. 4125 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans...
...almost impossible to believe that there was any malfeasance in the decision that left the bonus management of the highest performing employees at these companies to the boards and senior managers. But, the government elected to avoid getting into a series of disputes over how thousands of people should be paid. Federal regulators chose to hope that the banks would use discretion when they made compensation decisions during this unprecedented credit crisis...
Margherita Boniver, an Italian Member of Parliament and longtime foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, chastised the "French radical-chic" efforts to block extradition. "The fact that Carla Bruni [helped] Petrella avoid extradition to Italy is something grave," adding there appeared to be "a sort of convergence" with the Battisti case. "It's all unprecedented," Boniver told reporters...
...groups for a series of controversial edicts that critics say embolden radical elements in the nation. Though some of the group's religious calls have been praised - it recently issued a fatwa against smoking by minors and pregnant women - others have been more divisive, like the decree that Muslims avoid conventional banks in favor of Shari'a-based banking. Because the council's rulings are nonbinding, they are generally observed only by the nation's more conservative Muslims, but its advice is nonetheless often sought by government officials. Last year, for instance, the council played a key part...