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DIED. JOHN KING, 87, pugnacious Thatcherite tycoon who in 1981 masterminded the successful privatization of the foundering state-run British Airways (known to suffering Brits as Bloody Awful) and transformed it into a profitable international powerhouse; in Leicestershire, England. After slashing jobs 30% and revamping BA's image, he sparred with archrival Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic, who accused him of such "dirty tricks" as computer hacking and passenger poaching. King ultimately was ordered to publicly apologize and pay libel judgments to Branson and Virgin...
...believe the newspapers here are still in French. Why don't they understand that American, I mean English, is the only thing to speak? There was a language war, people in case you didn't notice, and we won. Get with the program. Learn to say Bling and Ba-da-bing...
...falls down drunk in the middle of telling a story, but doesn’t stop talking. That’s commitment, folks. Colby has to take him home and quips: “At least he doesn’t live in the Quad.” Ba-zing...
...BGLTQ community, or a benefit concert that will donate funds to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Transition House. We think that it would say a lot. We spend 51 weeks of the year in a culture that silences survivors and shies away from confronting sexual violence. Take Ba ck the Night is one week where we hope that members of the community will make the statement that sexual violence is not something that they will tolerate, and that they are ready and willing to face the issue so. Then we can begin to change that culture so that...
...with me today, but another translator tells me that the soldiers want to sing me a song. He stands close and recites the words in English as the soldiers sing. It is a song about the day "Uncle Ho" declared their country's independence in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square. I hear these words: "All men are created equal. They are given certain rights; among these are life, liberty and happiness." I begin to cry and clap. These young men should not be our enemy. They celebrate the same words Americans do. The song ends with a refrain about...