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...Deep pass intended for Carroll Papajohn, winner of this week's Harvard Crimson Most Appetizing Name Award, but Papajohn gets demolished. Fellow staff writer Madeleine Shapiro: "He has a last name for a first name. I can't handle that." I can't handle the fact that his last name makes me hungry...
Tony Hillerman won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Best Novel of the year (Dance Hall of the Dead) in 1974, and in 1991 he received the highest award the organization can bestow: the title Grand Master for lifetime achievement. Yet the honor that brought him greatest pleasure was given to him by the Navajo Tribal Council when they named him a Special Friend of the Dineh (Navajo...
...potential meaning for the rest of us. Poverty plus celebrity plus race plus bad choices plus crime add up to ... What? Should we compare the media coverage of the Hudsons unfavorably with that of white victims like JonBenét Ramsey and Chandra Levy? Must it take an Academy Award to make one family's trauma stand out against a drumbeat of urban crime...
DeltaWest? Norelta? Northwest and Delta have announced a merger. It will take up to two years to fold Northwest fully into Delta, so, in the meantime, the airlines will continue to operate separately. You won't lose any award points you've accrued with Northwest, and if you bought your tickets with that airline, you should still go to its gates at the airport to check in. For more info, see the FAQ on the Northwest website...
Shortchanging Short Hops. What American giveth with one hand, it taketh with the other. A new mileage-award policy takes effect Dec. 31: Short-haul flights, which once earned fliers a minimum of 500 mileage points, will now earn points equal only to the actual miles flown. Super-elite gold and platinum AAdvantage members, however, will still receive the 500-point minimum...