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Well, it's tough to be a hero when you run a real global airline. If Ryanair's Michael O'Leary can bask in the glory of having built up a business almost from scratch, Eddington's lot in life is to try and fix what someone else broke. After rising through the ranks to lead Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, the former Rhodes scholar (he left Oxford with a doctorate in engineering) took the top job at Australia's troubled Ansett airline in 1997. Eddington's cost cutting brought Ansett into the black and reduced its debt...
Harvard’s gossip web is so strong because we love power. Let’s face it: gossip makes us feel better about ourselves. The listeners bask in the glow of knowing something that they shouldn’t and the spreaders acquire Harvard’s number one commodity: fame. Quite a symbiotic relationship...
...what about the rest of us? The American consumer can usually be counted on to make the Thanksgiving-Christmas period the year?s busiest travel season, with people skipping work and skipping town to be with loved ones, bask on beaches and generally keep the airline, hotel and destination businesses in business another year...
...that all of us can bask in. The toughness of the human spirit and the resolve of strong individuals are uplifting, as we have seen recently in our country. Staph, in his own right, is a hero, and his courage should serve as an example for the rest of his team and for the rest...
...Best in Science and Medicine was about as useful to me as the endless credits at the end of movies and TV shows. I care as much about the efforts of those working in genomics and biology as I do about key grips and transportation coordinators. Let these people bask in the adulation of their peers. Don't burden TIME readers with them. RAY WIEMER Rocky River, Ohio...