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...rivals say Orbitz is a Trojan horse that will initially offer low prices, pound competitors out of business and then raise prices. They cite the "most-favored-nation" clause, which requires member airlines to offer Orbitz every low fare they negotiate with others. Expedia vice president Eric Blachford says that clause gives Orbitz an unfair advantage. CEO Jeffrey Katz insists that Orbitz, which is a separate corporation, won those stipulations fair and square through arm's-length negotiations and technology that reduces booking costs. "Orbitz is operating completely within the law," he says...
...went into these cruelties may never be detected. In any case, there was private elation at the news of Cunanan's death in La Jolla among the rich, closeted gay men for whom respectability requires a veneer of heterosexuality. Here Cunanan had lived with businessman and arts patron Norman Blachford. Before Blachford, Cunanan had been known as the companion to two other local "benefactors"--one of whom was reportedly so nervous that Cunanan would name names if apprehended that he considered suicide himself...
After returning to San Diego, Cunanan reportedly took up with Norman Blachford, a semiretired businessman in his late 60s with an ample, Venetian-style home on the ocean in La Jolla. He is said to have given Cunanan a dark green Infiniti and a monthly allowance as high as $2,500, and to have taken him to Paris. "Andrew always had an air about him," says waiter Jim Allen, who knew Cunanan in San Diego. "'Out of my way--I'm really busy right now. I'm wearing very expensive clothes.' He had one of those large, checkbook-size wallets...
...November, when Trail moved to Minnesota, Madson had lost interest in Cunanan. "He suggested there was something about how Andrew sustained this lavish life-style," recalls Salvetti, "that he might be involved in something illegal." Cunanan's relationship with the older Blachford also eventually fell apart, adding to Cunanan's devastation. By spring, friends say, he was taking the pain killers he sometimes sold to make money, adding vodka to his usual straight cranberry juice and sleeping late into the afternoon...
...Blachford then went on to say. "I think that the people who characterized the Peace Corps as an organization made up primarily of lily-white, middle-class people may have had a very valid point. But I think that has changed. We have a tremendous need for blacks and other minorities, particularly in places like Africa and Latin America...
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