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David Neeleman's weeklong media apology tour took the JetBlue CEO from the Today show to David Letterman to Anderson Cooper to beg forgiveness for the popular airline's Valentine's Day debacle. The company had stranded more than 100,000 travelers after bad weather decimated its operating ability--in one case JetBlue passengers were left on a snowed-in runway for more than nine hours. Neeleman's mea culpa reached its apogee with a series of full-page national-newspaper ads: "Words cannot express how truly sorry we are for the anxiety, frustration and inconvenience that you, your family...
Graduate students aren’t alone in their military pursuits. Although one may not peg a prestigious liberal arts school as a training ground for future military officers, a small but committed group of Harvard undergraduates would beg to differ. Harvard’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is made up of students who take on a full course load at Harvard while training to become military officers. Although most ROTC cadets get to attend Harvard for free, they are required to serve at least eight years in the military upon graduation. “I think...
...just sit down every day and just write a ton of stuff,” he says. “Most of it’s terrible. I don’t think I’m very funny in person.”Jon Stewart would beg to differ.Rich, former president of the Harvard Lampoon (which, due to a rivalry that even Rich doesn’t understand, must now be referred to as a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine), just published his first book...
...national tendency to predict disaster and then swerve to avoid it at the last second. Trouble is, that tendency terrifies others on the road they hope will lead to prosperity and stability. As I came through Ghana on my way to Nigeria, one Minister told me: "Please beg those Nigerians for all our sakes to stay cool and calm. We don't want a disaster that will damage...
...easier for faith-based groups to receive public funds and technical assistance. And the Louisiana Recovery Authority stresses the need to involve and support religious leaders and their organizations. But the city's faith-based organizations are now sagging. Unless Kramer's church gets $125,000 soon, its beg-and-borrow construction projects will grind to a halt. Scruggs too says that keeping the grass-roots rebuilding efforts going will require affirmative answers to fervent prayers for more money and volunteers. Catholic Charities and Habitat are short-staffed and stretched thin...