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...survived the four horsemen of the apocalypse - SARS, conflict in Iraq, terrorism and the economy," said Giovanni Bisignani, head of global airline-industry group IATA, last year. "But a fifth horseman, the price of oil, could deny us profitability yet again." Not in Ryanair's case. The Dublin-based budget airline's fuel bill doubled in the six months to October, but it still cheered earnings of $277 million last week, a year- on-year rise of 18%. CEO Michael O'Leary's course of squeezing nonfuel costs and pushing up passenger volumes will "see [Ryanair] through an awful...
...charisma in the role enthralls and sucks in the audience. His shark’s grin is as present as ever, and he wields it recklessly, bringing credibility to a character that would surely appear flat and lifeless in less talented hands. David Locke is a journalist covering a conflict in an unnamed Northern African nation. Bored with his work as he is with his life, he finds an unexpected boon in the death of his neighbor at his tiny hotel. Banking on his striking resemblance to the late Brit, he swaps passport pictures and sets off into...
...Wednesday's attacks suggest that Abdullah's worst fears about the Iraq war may be coming to pass. Though the King has been a staunch ally in the War on Terrorism, and provided key logistical support in the Iraq invasion, he strongly opposed the war on grounds that a conflict could further destabilize the Middle East...
...surprising detour to the reddest of the red states. In the drama, which debuts in summer 2006, characters declare their faith as easily as those on Deadwood swear. Co-creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, neither of whom is Mormon, say they were interested in the conflict within Bill, who came from a polygamist compound but now lives in the mainstream suburbs of Salt Lake City. The fundamentalists, says Olsen, see the LDS Church "as sellouts and apostates." Mainstream Mormons, he adds, "wish the compounds would go away...
...Crimson reports that, according to Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, I misrepresented him during a recent lecture at Harvard Law School on the Israel-Palestine conflict (“At Talk, Finkelstein Calls Dershowitz Book a Fraud,” news...