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...breakdown of negotiations for Air France-KLM to buy Alitalia has left the Italian airline closer than ever to bankruptcy. On Thursday evening, the Milan stock exchange announced that Alitalia shares will be suspended until April 8, following the public company's next board meeting. The failure of talks with Air France, also prompted yet another resignation at the top, as Alitalia chairman Maurizio Prato stepped down just seven months after taking over the troubled air carrier with the goal of facilitating its sale. Now, nothing is likely to move until after Italy's April 13-14 national elections...
...Closer to home, we are bidding farewell to one of TIME's true legends: Jan Simpson. Over the course of her nearly three-decade career at TIME, Jan has held down pretty much every job in every category at the magazine and excelled at each one. Jan came here from the Wall Street Journal in 1979 to be a correspondent in the New York bureau. She was soon posted to Mexico City, where she dropped her bags and disappeared into Nicaragua for a year to cover the Sandinistas and the contras. Upon her return, she hopscotched from World-section writer...
...fans and athletes (whose ability to express political opinions is limited, the result of Olympic charter and U.S. Olympic policy) to participate in activist efforts—these and other tactics can be steps in the direction of protesters’ underlying goals. As the opening ceremonies draw ever closer, we wish athletes and activists alike the best in chasing their Beijing goals. “One world, one dream,” the official 2008 slogan reads—and a thousand spotlights, a thousand gazes, and a thousand opportunities for change...
...sure to only include critics, journalists, and members of the music industry’s upper crust, the Perez Hilton crowd is likely to be a tough one. When I arrive, Wallach is already stationed at the entrance, passing out what appear to be giant condoms. When I get closer, I see that these objects are actuallly cleverly packaged copies of Chester French’s first official single, “She Loves Everybody.” The idea to package the singles in this way was Wallach’s last decision as the band?...
...were paying off: various polls showed the race tightening a bit. The talk-show muttering had migrated from Jeremiah Wright to Clinton's Bosnian sniper-fire fantasy. Hordes of new voters were registering in Pennsylvania. It was not impossible that Obama would turn Clinton's predicted victory into a closer-than-expected moral defeat...