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...Southwest The one major airline that is bucking the trend of increasing fees, Southwest still doesn't charge for checked bags (up to two), nonalcoholic drinks, blankets or making a change to your flight. The discount airline has even launched an ad campaign to brag about that fact. Its new slogan: "Fees don't fly with...
...concerns: gas prices, health care, jobs. What’s more, we’re honing a new message for Republicans to send voters in the fall. One that says we’re visionary, not reactionary. We can govern, not just win. And we won’t brag about G.D.P. We know you hate that...
Boot Camp is working against the old notion that real men, manly men, skip the dirty work when it comes to child-rearing. "There was a time when men would brag that they never had to change a diaper," Dubin tells the class, "but that's not something to brag about now." Instructors reach their audience using guy talk: first-time expectant dads are "rookies"; "veterans" who have taken the class come back with their "stunt babies" so that students can learn to hold, diaper and "burrito wrap"--er, swaddle--them...
...your essays, show what makes you tick; the essays are not brag sheets. Don't list what you did so much as account for how you were effective getting others, like professors and other students, to help you. Think Tom Sawyer. Get the others to help you paint the fence. Don't brag about raising money for charity, but explain how you convinced 20 other kids to help you raise money for charity...
...Socioeconomic “Diversity” Harvard people, especially university presidents, really like to brag about campus diversity, even if many Harvard people don’t actually interact with anyone outside of their racial or socioeconomic group...