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...join McAuliffe in a Florida land deal. The fund, which provided nearly all the capital in an equal partnership with McAuliffe, bought back his shares for more than $2 million--a move the department called imprudent but did not blame McAuliffe for. Likewise, when Prudential Insurance Co.--a generous donor to both parties--paid McAuliffe $375,000 to help secure a government lease, U.S. prosecutors in Washington fined the firm but found no problem with McAuliffe...
...scale - more northeastern flights feeding seamlessly into those lucrative long-distance flights means more one-stop United shopping for flyers, which means more money. Which is why United was willing to pay $60 a share - in cash, not stock - for an airline lucky to be at $25, a generous premium even in the mega-merger game. The merger could also be a lucky break for USAirways? frequent flyers, says TIME Washington correspondent Sally Donnelly. "United generally ranks near the top in customer service surveys, and USAirways is continuously plagued by performance complaints and customer satisfaction troubles," Donnelly says. "Now people...
...Talk of Many Things" is proof, if it were needed, that for the last 50 years Buckley has been a presence - witty, scathing, philosophical, generous, often surprisingly tender - in the middle of the American conversation. Well, not in the middle; on the right, but perfectly audible elsewhere. His book of speeches is, among other things, a guided tour of the last half century. I am impressed, reading these speeches, at how often Buckley's assessments at the time have been dead-on - about Mao's cultural revolution, about Norman Mailer, about other extravagances. I like the way that Buckley stated...
Well, let's say the corner newsstand. The women's good-natured, rowdy jousting in the opening and closing round-table segments makes the show a distinctive treat. But in between is fairly typical daytime-talk fare. The celebrity interviews, which make Walters' pre-Oscars weepfests look cerebral, are generous to a fault. (And how. Vieira once gave Wesley Snipes a lap dance--"after he requested it!" she protests.) There are numerous fashion features--Jones has often shilled her line of wigs--and for every contrarian service piece on "swimsuits for real women" there's a runway show of boobulous...
...there's a PacBell Park to match. The venerable Boston Garden was replaced not too long ago by the Fleet Center: a city erased, its role played by a bank. A little town in the Pacific Northwest just renamed itself after a dotcom company in return for a generous donation. I won't mention the name here, since I figure advertising should be paid for. That's when advertising has gone too far: when it's become something we are, rather than something...