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Kangaroo Route. Qantas is now flying its A380s from Sydney to London three times a week. They're 10% more fuel efficient than other jumbo jets and loaded with wi-fi, quieter engines and 17-in. monitors in the Marc Newson-designed first-class cabin. Ergonomically designed seats - complete with a small foot rest - improve the comfort level even in coach. It all makes the 22-hr. flight a little more bearable...
...According to Marc Williamson, manager of J.J. Hat Center, New York City's oldest purveyor of hats, sales have increased at least 20% in the past two years, with the most popular style being the small-brimmed fedora. "The younger guys have influenced middle-aged guys," says Williamson. "The older guys thought hats made them look old, but that's changing." (See pictures of Michelle Obama's Jason Wu dress...
...other politically loaded cases, Holder seemed all too accommodating to political benefactors. The most notable of these is Bill Clinton's 2000 pardon of fugitive Marc Rich - which Holder facilitated - and the 1999 clemency Clinton granted to imprisoned members of FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group linked by the FBI to bombings, armed robberies and murders. Republicans accused the President at the time of using the commutations to draw Puerto Rican support in New York for the budding senatorial campaign of his wife. In the conservative National Review, Andrew C. McCarthy opines, "With the FALN pardons, [Holder] helped foster...
Early last year, Marc Litt, an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan, was presented six binders of documents - hundreds of pages each - pertaining to a high-profile investigation. Lawyers wanted to know if Litt would be willing to bring what looked to be a juicy case and they wanted to meet the next...
...people might have just winged it," says Anthony Barkow, who was an assistant U.S. attorney working with Litt at the time. "But by the next day Marc had an encyclopedic knowledge of the case. And although there was a colorable reason to go take the case, he exercised restraint and decided we should not. It was the right decision." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...