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Last week, Detroit celebrated its 300th birthday (believe it or not, there is history outside of Boston) with fanfare and frippery. Fifteen tall ships docked along the Detroit River, filling the aquatic expanse with vibrant colors from Detroit to Windsor. Dignitaries representing France and twelve Native American nations converged upon the city to celebrate its heritage. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performed outdoors with an 800-person gospel choir...
...best thing JetBlue may have going for it is Neeleman. One of seven siblings, who has nine children of his own, Neeleman has been dreaming about airplanes since he saw a red one on his second birthday cake. A serial travel entrepreneur, he started his first business as an accounting undergraduate at the University of Utah. He has launched four airlines, including Morris Air and Canada's WestJet Airlines, each one more successful than the last. Neeleman, who retains such geeky attributes as wearing a calculator-watch combination, even developed the computer system that became the basis for e-ticketing...
...invariably wrote out her toasts and delivered them with shaking hands, as she did at a February dinner for President George W. Bush. But on her 84th birthday in June, in her house on the hill, she had no notes. The room had seen its share of kings and princesses, but the event on that evening meant the most to her. "When you live alone," she concluded, "you're married to your friends." She wasn't trembling...
...committee, Wang Wei, also raised expectations by promising that a Beijing Games would "improve all facets of life in China, including education, health and human rights." But the way China conducted its bid belied such talk. Just two weeks before the vote, the party celebrated its 80th birthday by ordering all cinemas to show propaganda films with titles like Wedding Ceremony at the Execution Ground. The fixation on killing fields extended beyond celluloid: China has executed 1,700 people this year in a crackdown on crime, more than the rest of the world combined for the past three years, according...
...invariably wrote out her toasts and delivered them with shaking hands, as she did at a February dinner for President George W. Bush. But on her 84th birthday in June, in her house on the hill, she had no notes. The room had seen its share of kings and princesses, but the event on that evening meant the most to her. "When you live alone," she concluded, "you're married to your friends." She wasn't trembling...