Word: chic
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...RETIRED. CONCORDE, the sleek, chic, supersonic passenger jet; on May 31, after 27 years of service, by Air France; in Roissy, France. Despite stratospheric ticket prices?more than $10,000 for some flights?the jet's profitability nose-dived following a July 2000 crash in which 113 people were killed. Increasing maintenance expenses and a slumping aviation industry compounded Concorde's woes. British Airways, the only other airline flying the jet, plans to ground its fleet...
...DINNER WITH: When you eat out with chic chef Nigella Lawson, save room for calf's brains...
...geek-chic union of the year, It-boy director STEVEN SODERBERGH (Traffic, Ocean's Eleven) married former E! spokes-hottie JULES ASNER...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...more than a slap on the wrist - as have his Latin American neighbors. But Europe's legions of Castro admirers, from politicians to artists, are increasingly siding with Payá, a phenomenon that could dampen European enthusiasm for travel to Cuba, which is often driven by the island's chic revolutionary cachet. Portugal's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, José Saramago, once a Castro admirer, wrote in a stinging editorial last month that "this is as far as I go" with Cuba's revolution. The E.U. has also postponed negotiation of a badly needed economic aid package for Cuba...