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...price-fixing penalties wiped at least some of the gloss off all that. According to the OFT, scheming with rival Virgin over the level of fuel surcharges started months before Walsh took control. As soon as the OFT informed BA in mid-2006 that it was investigating the company, the airline cooperated with the investigations. (Virgin, whose legal team first contacted the OFT about the scheming once it got wind of the problem, should escape any fine as a result.) Still, it's hardly reassuring that staff at BA thought it a smart idea to collude with the company...
...Third World development, getting its materials from small communities in poorer countries like Guatemala (aloe vera) and Nambia (marula oil). Over the years, the scope of campaigns that Roddick had taken up - and that Body Shop has supported in its storefronts - grew and expanded. Now a tube of lip gloss can increase awareness about domestic abuse and a bottle of perfume is a weapon in the fight against HIV. "She made shopping a political act," says her friend Josephine Fairley, co-founder of organic chocolate company Green & Black's. "She was the first person to do that. She made cosmetics...
...price-fixing penalties wiped at least some of the gloss off all that. According to the OFT, scheming with rival Virgin over the level of fuel surcharges started months before Walsh took control of BA. As soon as the OFT informed BA in mid-2006 that it was investigating the company, the airline cooperated with the authority's investigations. (Virgin, whose legal team first contacted the OFT about the scheming once it got wind of it, should escape any fine as a result.) Still, it's hardly reassuring that staff at BA thought it a smart idea to collude with...
...Nicole Kidman is trying to fall in love. This is an incredibly risky thing to do. Not because it's difficult: the object of her affection is Hugh Jackman, a broad-shouldered swoony hunk of the old school. And not because a lot of her needs--Chanel, lip gloss, salad--aren't available in nearby Kununurra, and the nearest substantial town is about 350 miles (560 km) away. It's because Kidman & Co. are making a big, $130 million--plus historical romantic drama. The kind of movie hardly anyone makes anymore. The kind of movie people seem to stay away...
...principal argued that she thought the message was about pot smoking and that it broke school rules against promoting illegal drugs, and Roberts agrees with her. He attempts a lawyerly gloss on the whole discussion by launching into an exegesis of the possible meanings of Bong Hits 4 Jesus, explaining that it "could be interpreted as an imperative" (DO bong hits), a celebration of drug use (bong hits are GOOD) or "gibberish" (TOO MANY bong hits). In any event, he concludes that it must have some meaning, and since the one the principal gave it is as good...