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...time Washington started recognizing that everyone benefits from aviation. Though military, business and private aircraft all use the infrastructure, U.S. commercial carriers primarily carry the costs. Why shouldn't a corporate hotshot in his Gulfstream jet pay a fair share to use the same services? And why should everyday passengers pay for an airport that no commercial airline can ever serve? It's unfair that airline security costs (to protect our citizens from attack from the air) are paid for predominantly by passenger ticket taxes. Since everyone benefits, why not use some of the revenue collected from everyone on April...
...particularly when they learned he had moonlighted on behalf of a gay-rights group. Overall the very deliberate examination of his every argument and memo and decision has revealed a more complex character than initial reports promised. The 60,000 pages of documents from his early years as a hotshot Reagan Administration lawyer that have since been made public show an ambitious twentysomething with an attitude--sometimes cautious, always confident, occasionally acid, as when he referred to the Girl Scout who wanted to sell a box of cookies to Ronald Reagan as "the little huckster." And sometimes possessed...
Mondovino begins with an account of “L’Affaire Mondavi,” hotshot Napa newcomer Robert Mondavi’s attempt to buy out older vineyards in the Burgundy region of France. From there the documentary spirals wildly to both the deeply individual and personal—one woman’s decision to quit her job; a father’s disapproval of his profit-minded son—and the staggeringly broad—the rights of laborers; the aftermath of fascism; and the costs of globalization...
...Petting Zoo follows “a hotshot painter” who has a nervous breakdown after viewing the work of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Carroll explains, “he thinks he sees in Velazquez’s work a spiritual element…and he thinks his paintings and those of his contemporaries are spiritually bereft.” The young painter then spends 72 hours in a psychological observation unit–“because they can do that if they think you?...
...best tale about John Edwards is neither tall nor ancient, but it serves as an ideal allegory for his life. In the summer of 1995, the hotshot Raleigh, N.C., trial attorney wrapped up his legal work for the week and strolled into a local sporting-goods store to do some shopping. Edwards explained that he was planning to climb 19,340-ft. Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in a few days with his son Wade, then 15, and he needed some good, strong hiking boots. Horrified by the customer's naive, if not dangerous, lack of preparation, the sales staff urged...