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...Industry spokespeople argue that such luxury pricing is needed to keep the base fares low, and is no different from the extravagant prices you pay at concerts and sporting events. "You go to a baseball game and pay six bucks for a hot dog," says John Heimlich, chief economist for the Air Transportation Association. Pillows, blankets, the best seats-"those luxuries are things that we're not baking into the price anymore," he says. "Every little bit helps...
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...they have quantitative skills; their economics secondary field recognition will prove it. Unfortunately, this recognition comes at a heavy cost. More likely then not, the secondary field option will unduly pressure students to make curricular choices that will ultimately leave them less satisfied. The game theory dynamic is unavoidable. Dog eats dog in the Harvard world, and graduating without this additional feather in one’s cap will be frowned upon soon enough. Once there is a secondary field option in place, and as a few students begin to opt into it, a large number of students will quickly...
...fades away--salsa is more popular than ketchup; Salma Hayek is bigger than Madonna--and the border is everywhere. One day soon it may seem a little backward for someone in the U.S. not to speak some Spanish, even the hybrid Spanglish of the Southwest: "Como se llama your dog?" Signs appear in the store windows of Garden City, Kans., that say SE HABLA ESPANOL, and you can buy extremely fresh mangoes at bodegas all over that town. Dalton, Ga. (pop. 27,900), has three Spanish-language newspapers. Says longtime resident Edwin Mitchell, 77: "We're a border community...
...Soldiers are not supposed to be soft and cuddly." MICHAEL J. SMITH, U.S. Army dog handler who was sentenced last week to six months behind bars for using his Belgian shepherd to "soften up" prisoners at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq...