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Surprisingly, United's decision to return to the federal trough is drawing flak within the industry. In a rare display of intra-airline bickering, Leo Mullin, the head of Delta Airlines and the industry's key lobbyist for government assistance since 9/11, said, "The ATSB should be limited to overseeing the outstanding loans. Then it should go out of business." Added Mullin, whose carrier did not apply to the ATSB for money: "Let the marketplace work." That's easy for him to say, since Delta will probably survive. Some other airlines flying today will...
Reporting from a war zone may be the toughest assignment a journalist can get. Along with the flak jacket and the satellite phone, music?an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong?can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq...
Reporting from a war zone may be the toughest assignment a journalist can get. Along with the flak jacket and the satellite phone, music - an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong - can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq. Aparisim Ghosh I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza...
...something the Americans will puzzle over later, when the fighting stops. "There were about 20 muzzle fires on the northern ridge," Captain Craig Mullaney later recalls. One was a sniper, who, from a distance of 600 yds., hits Private First Class Evan O'Neill, 19, twice precisely below his flak jacket, shearing a main artery. A third shot hits O'Neill as his buddies are dragging him behind a tree. Braving machine-gun and rocket fire, medic Christopher Couchot administers first aid and then helps carry O'Neill up the hillside to the humvees. A Black Hawk medevac helicopter circles...
...never threatened. In fact, there was something of a school-wide shrug: many kids told her she was only trying to get attention in the wake of the Shepard murder, which had just occurred. And now, she says, "I actually get a lot more flak about being a feminist on campus than being bisexual...