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...Baggies and pins to a wall in his room. One of his most prized possessions is a photograph of his grandfather with a Ukrainian woman who, according to family legend, saved his life during World War II. In Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan journeys to the Ukraine to discover her fate...
...retribution for publicizing official malfeasance. "I know I'm at risk, but I cannot give up, because people are depending on me," said Chen shortly before he was detained. Yet even if Chen is released from house arrest and his lawsuit succeeds, it will do little to change the fate of women like Hu Bingmei. When family-planning officials came to fetch her in May for a forced sterilization, Hu escaped with her two daughters to her parents' home in another village. Several days later, seven officials showed up, she says, grabbed her younger child and shoved the girl into...
...when Dylan is 25 and exhausted by the touring, the hostility and the inanities of the press--"Could you just suck on your glasses?" one photographer keeps asking--he's starting to see a Buddy Holly--style fate looming before him. "You end up crashing in a private plane in the mountains of Tennessee. Or Sicily," he says backstage. "I just wanna go home...
...back flights. Meanwhile, the labor strike at Northwest Airlines, the country's fourth biggest carrier, could drive it over the financial edge too. That would put a total of 5 out of 12 major airlines in bankruptcy (United, US Airways and ATA are already there). The same fate may await Independence Air, a small Virginia-based start-up that has been instrumental in driving fares down over the past year...
Going forward, Leonard knows AirTran's fate will depend largely on whether the Federal Government gets out of the business of subsidizing failed airlines. "As a nation, we are subsidizing failure on a grand scale ... And it needs to end," says Leonard. "There should be firm limits to bankrupt carriers' being allowed an almost never ending process of not paying their bills." But even if the government steps back and Delta and Northwest become significantly weaker, at least one serious rival is already moving in to pick up some slack. New York--based JetBlue, just five years...