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...outshooting its hosts 8-2. As regulation time ticked away, the Aztecs earned a free kick on the left side. A San Diego State midfielder directed it towards the goal, only to find it turned away with two seconds left to play—not by senior keeper Lauren Mann, but by the post. Harvard renewed its attack in the first 10-minute overtime session, finishing with a 3-0 advantage in shots. Sophomore Melanie Baskind took her first crack less than a minute in, but her attempt was cleared, as was a shot by classmate Patricia...
...cities live up to their literary reputations as much as Venice does. The shimmering mirage that illuminated Thomas Mann's seminal novella Death in Venice is the same today as it was when he wrote it in 1912. So too, it seems, are the characters consumed by the city's seething Dionysian urges. Nearly a century later, British author Geoff Dyer, in his latest pair of novellas, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, has returned to Venice an updated version of Mann's aging dilettante. Jeff Atman is an art critic sent from London to cover the 2003 Venice Biennale...
...pass, except to say that demand has exceeded expectations, to the point that JetBlue shortened the deadline that flyers could purchase the pass by from Aug. 21 to Aug. 19. Industry analysts expect healthy results. "It should generate a fair amount of revenue," says airline consultant Robert Mann, "and lots of goodwill for JetBlue." (See 50 essential travel tips...
...will probably be even slower. If the deal spurs new travel, and revenue, during a time when seats would otherwise remain empty, JetBlue will make out just fine. Airlines incur some extra service costs if more people pile onto a plane: about a third of the fuel costs, says Mann, depend on the number of passengers and pieces of luggage on board. But most of the major costs are fixed: the same number of pilots and flight attendants are required whether 10 or 100 passengers are on the aircraft. On the other hand, if most of the people who bought...
...JetBlue route map: hits jumped 700% after the promotion was announced, on Aug. 12. Even flyers who ultimately passed on the offer became more familiar with JetBlue. "People are on the website, sitting around and figuring how much to take home at an all-you-can-eat buffet," says Mann...