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...bought into a sleepy two-plane airline in Kuala Lumpur. He now has 22 planes and is seeking to buy 80 more over the next eight years. AirAsia has gone from 12 flights a day to 100, including runs from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, from Bangkok to the gambling mecca of Macau and even flights to Bali. He's also eyeing China and India. Boasts Fernandes: "We have transformed the way people think about flying...
...rowing tradition, Mulcahy rekindled his love for rowing on the Charles. “Rowing on the Charles as compared to the inlet is quite a change,” Mulcahy said. “There’s so many other crews, it really is kind of a mecca of rowing. The Head of the Charles is a good example of that. It’s just so much talent and so many people in such a close area, they kind of feed off each other and really do well.”As for Young, after watching Harvard?...
...perfect it, and the other part of it is trying to improve your fitness. What in other sports is constituted as punishment—in rowing, it’s practice.”After 12 years playing competitive hockey in Canada, the world’s ice hockey mecca, it’s no surprise Wintner is a master of discipline. Wintner got his start on the ice when he was just eight years old, competing both as a forward and a defenseman on Canadian youth teams. But by the time he was 10, Wintner took over as goalie...
...unlikely new 10th-grader arrived on the campus of Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts. He was Abdullah ibn Hussein, direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and scion of the Hashemite dynasty, the onetime princes of Mecca and currently the ruling family of the kingdom of Jordan. Now known as His Majesty King Abdullah II, he points to the years spent as a member of the academy's class of 1980 as the most formative of his life. Deerfield introduced Abdullah to a much broader range of friends than is normally available to young Arab princes, and the character-building crucible...
...objectives of the Cole's attackers were equally clear in their minds: Drive the United States out of the Arab peninsula, bring down the American puppets in the Gulf - the Saudi royal family - and create an Islamic caliphate that would truly protect the two holy places, Mecca and Medina...