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...early accolades wouldn't bother the big airlines if only students and grandmothers were flying JetBlue. But the carrier is pulling in business travelers, the industry's most valuable passengers and the source of up to 50% of its profits. "We were starved for an airline like this," says Christopher Hayes, the chief investment officer at Rulison & Co., a financial firm based in Rochester, N.Y. Hayes, who has lately forgone his frequent-flyer perks on JetBlue rival US Airways, has already flown the newcomer 12 times: "It's hard to compare flying JetBlue to other airlines...
Besides, Jordan--despite all his careful brilliance in building the blandly flawless Jordan brand--doesn't care what we think. Friends say that he takes the articles that tell him not to come back and tacks them all on his refrigerator as inspiration. So why bother writing something telling him not to come back? Because I might get my name on Michael Jordan's refrigerator. He is still Michael Jordan...
World's fairs, those jamborees of national output--what ever happened to them? The Belgian waffles, the Futurama architecture, it all used to seem so important. Yet the U.S. didn't even bother to erect a pavilion for the one last year in Hanover, Germany. And, really, why should it have? Who needs to stand in line outside a geodesic dome to find out what America produces? Who needs a product-display center to discover Lucinda Williams? Or a monorail to take you to Philip Roth or Tom Ford? Anywhere in the world you find a movie screen...
...power of fiction, and his energy shows no signs of flagging. His office is a study on his Connecticut property about 60 yds. from his house: "I work at my job the way most human beings work at jobs; I start mornings and quit evenings." Bad reviews no longer bother him: "I'm sometimes frustrated by my own efforts but not by the public response. Once a book is out of your hands, readers make of it what they will...
...firm that produces one of China's most popular beers. Police last year sentenced him to a year in a Beijing prison for practicing Falun Gong, and relatives say he was tortured when he refused to disavow his beliefs. Chen is due for release this week. He needn't bother asking for his old job back. "If a person can't work, then we have to find someone else," explains Wang Hong, head of human resources for Carlsberg...