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...security arrangements as "a shambles." Last week, O'Leary went a step further by suing the British government for $5.7 million for what Ryanair claims to have lost through cancellations and lost bookings in the week after the plot's discovery. The government says the suit has no merit. O'Leary, who has promised to give the money to charity if the company wins, said: "Ryanair's sole motive in this action is to defeat terrorism by returning airport security to normal." Other airlines affected, including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, aren't joining Ryanair in its suit. Analysts...
...forgo a presidential race and set her sights on rising within the Senate leadership, toward the possibility of becoming the first woman majority leader someday. She has worked to tamp down talk of her national ambition by proving there is no New York concern too parochial to merit her attention. When an Appropriations subcommittee passed a bill that was loaded with goodies for New York recently, Hillary's staff bombarded reporters' e-mail with seven press releases in just over an hour, making sure she got credit for communications equipment for Onondaga and Rockland counties, economic-development assistance for Staten...
...Frist Campus Center. Harrison wasn't in the Cum Laude Society, which is the top 20% of students at his prep school, St. Albans, but my research indicated that Princeton considered Harrison a very high priority for admission. [A Princeton spokesman says Frist was accepted on his own merit...
Fortunately for those families, a growing number of public colleges and less élite private schools are waiting for them with a bushel of new scholarships that used to be based on need but now are based on merit. The schools are simply following the times: these days even public colleges are obsessed with improving their rankings, which can be done in part by attracting high-scoring students with offers of an all-expenses-paid education. Although need-based grants still make up the overwhelming majority of all scholarships, the giving has been tilting slowly but surely toward the best...
...wonder if it's just because manga has come to be circulated more in the world than it was before? If it is because manga is being recognized for its merit as a medium capable of expression, then I'm happy as someone who loves manga...