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...wonder, then, that since 9/11, which accelerated the worst downturn in U.S. aviation history, the major carriers have been whistling in the dark, waiting for their business to return to "normal." But with US Airways' move last week to seek bankruptcy protection, United's warning that it was sliding that way and American's announcement of "fundamental structural changes," the majors as much as admitted that they can't wait any longer for the friendly skies to return. They have to start building a new business model--one focused on both leisure travelers and the growing ranks of business travelers...
...father's eyes simultaneously plead and hold firm. It would happen when a sentence broke off because he couldn't remember how to finish it. Or when he would say, "I have this condition--I keep forgetting things." He was on a high wire, balancing on courage, with the dark waters of fear below, and he was using every bit of his strength to cling to that wire...
...influx of "ordinary people" stimulated by the coming of the railroad from Paris through Lyon and Marseilles. About a century later, it was decadence and crime, a subject that sufficiently aroused English novelist and long-time Nice resident Graham Greene to write his famous polemic J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice. Kanigel has compiled a hybrid, neither a lightweight beach book nor a dry work of scholarship. Instead, High Season in Nice is a lively contribution to the literature of travel history. A writing teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he manages to evoke the warm, seductive lure...
...Most Segregated Hour It is Sunday morning in Sacramento's Meadowview community, and hundreds of Russian-speaking immigrants-men in dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game-are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish- language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
...What would you do if you were up a dark alley with Caesar Borgia And he was coming torgia...