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...seems abnormal that the CEO of an airline that buys oil by the tanker and will burn through 250 million gal. this year alone isn't complaining too much about the record high price of fuel. But in fact, Joe Leonard, head of low-cost carrier AirTran Airways, thinks a few weeks of $66-per-bbl. oil would bring an overdue shake-out in the struggling airline business. "High oil prices are going to force some carriers out of the market," he says, "and it's going to happen quickly." You can almost see him smile, since AirTran...
...quell his disdain for patients like a 9-year-old cancer victim ("She's such a brave girl; I want to see how brave she is when she hears she's going to die"). "Another actor would have posed as the mumbly, moody, acceptable antiauthority figure," says Robert Sean Leonard, whose character, oncologist Dr. James Wilson, is House's only real friend on the show. "Hugh plays House as a human being you're surprised to find you want to be around...
...House's coveted time slot last season behind TV's No. 1 show American Idol, a luxury the House cast and crew won't enjoy this year. If they wanted to overlook that fact, their lead actor reminds them of it constantly. "Hugh is uncomfortable with everything," says Leonard. "He'll dismiss the Emmys, the ratings...
...will be confirmed, the main question is how the sides are positioning themselves for the ones to come. Democrats who indicated earlier this summer that they thought Roberts was an acceptable choice got an earful from liberal interest groups on hanging tough. Conservative counselors Jay Sekulow, Ed Meese and Leonard Leo, who advised the White House on picking Roberts, sent a memo to colleagues noting that the same kind of stories about Roberts sailing through were written more than a decade earlier about Clarence Thomas. "There is far, far too much at stake," they wrote, "for our left wing friends...
...need of writers. It is waiting for tourists." But the writer persevered - and became one of the Pacific's best-known novelists. Wendt's 2003 epic The Mango's Kiss dramatizes the encounter between a village girl, Pele, loosely based on Wendt's grandmother, and a Scottish novelist called Leonard Roland Stenson. Is he a sympathetic character? "Hell, yes," says Wendt. "In the novel, he leaves his library of books to the young Samoan woman - it didn't actually happen in real life." Instead, metaphorically at least, he bequeathed them to a nation...