Word: flighted
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...ready to go to jail if necessary, but I want to go back to my country.' SHEIKH HASINA, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, after being barred from boarding a flight from London to Dhaka. Bangladesh's interim government has asked airlines not to allow Hasina to fly into the country, after fighting between her supporters and those of political rival Khaleda Zia led it to impose a state of emergency in January
...There is, of course, little way of answering this, but then the pleasure lies in the asking. Arranged according to their visual rhythm, the images brim with possibility and are a pleasure to browse. Lovers embracing on the grass are juxtaposed with darting splashes of water; a flight of fluttering birds is counterbalanced with the utter stillness of a male figure lying by a tranquil stream, his head and legs artistically out of frame by benevolent mistake...
...down with batons in hand, while simultaneously the miniscule tube of chapstick from the very bottom of my rather large backpack got confiscated for being a potential bomb. I decided that the day had already gone so wrong that it couldn’t possibly get any worse. The flight would be fine, I’d get some school work done, and maybe I would even get to sit next to some attractive, post-Cabo, sun-kissed student, returning to Boston rested and ready to begin the last few weeks of school...
This isn’t to say that I gleaned anything truly monumental from my trip back to Boston. Instead, the flight reasserted my understanding of just how lucky I am. I mean, of course I would have preferred the window seat in an exit row, but that day on the airplane proved to me that my Harvard skepticism sometimes controls my life. Every once and a while things suck, and the prospect of sitting in the middle seat between a dad and two babies certainly did suck. But things could have been a lot worse—I mean...
...transaction costs are manageable, privatized security policies would incentivize more rational cost-benefit analysis, leading to policies that are both more effective and innovative. Faced with the threat of multi-million dollar lawsuits and irreparable damage to their reputation (think Pan Am), airlines’ self-interest would improve flight security far more than government central planning...