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...Finnair flies several times daily to Rovaniemi from Helsinki. Tickets are $170 for children and $210 for grown-ups. The children may want window seats, in the hope of spotting a certain team of reindeer on a practice flight for the big night...
...simply too much fear, self-doubt, opportunism and ambition in our makeup to expect our frail species to adhere to it. How many loyal free-agent ball players can one name, or publishing executives, or authors? "I do" is a promise of loyalty that often lasts until the first Finnair hostess comes down the aisle. Carville notes that more people turn on Presidents than stick--though there are ways of doing both, as Peter Edelman of the Department of Health and Human Services proved when he waited for the passage of Clinton's welfare bill before resigning because he could...
...compromises in standards are inevitably measured in human lives. "Russian air safety," says Dan Cook, editor of Air Safety Week, "unfortunately is an oxymoron." Cook means what he says: on a recent inspection trip to Moscow, he and a team of safety inspectors declined to use Aeroflot. They flew Finnair instead...
When, at the end of our semester it was time to leave, the wheels of our Finnair jet lifted from the runway of Moscow's Sheremetivo airport, and our group burst into thunderous applause and joyous cheers. Our euphoric outburst was a natural expression of our relief at leaving the frustrations of Soviet life behind and finally heading home. For some of us, it was also an expression of thanksgiving for the degree of liberty that American can democracy, despite serious faults, has managed to protect...
...Finnair ad, seeking to convince Americans that "great vacations start with flying Finnish," featured a fanciful headline about the invention of the sauna by a Finn who discovered that his wife "loved" being locked in a smokehouse and beaten with birch leaves. Lawyer Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, conceded in a letter to Finnair North American General Manager Leif Lundstrom that the airline had intended only to be funny-but added that wife beating was no laughing matter, either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women...