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...nation of 30 million nearly went berserk when record demand for air travel led to a spate of flight delays, cancellations and lost baggage. Unlike Americans, whose similar woes might come from a dozen airlines and agencies, Canadian flyers had a solo target for their rage: Boston-born Robert Milton, 40, the in-your-face president and CEO of Air Canada, the country's dominant carrier. Newspaper columnist Scott Feschuk, writing in the National Post, summed up the mood neatly: "Dear Bob, Your freaking airline totally sucks. Sincerely, Everyone." Even the Canadian government had cause to agree. The airline lost...
...when it comes to Third Stream music. "It's totally open; that's the whole beauty. I'm not interested in anything that's closed. We all approached it in different ways. It's a music which enables the creation of unique musical profiles." Indeed, compositions as diverse as Milton Babbitt's dodecaphonic All Set and John Lewis' Three Little Feelings are both considered Third Stream. Reflecting on what has become of the movement, Schuller says, "Now it's become like 10,000th stream, because ethnic and folk and vernacular music is introduced. It's no longer called Third Stream...
According to Pforzheimer House Superintendent Milton Canjura, the elevators had been fixed since the incidents...
...Such speak-no-evil forbearance goes against political nature. The substantive issues - taxes, social security, health care - are difficult to dramatize. Just as John Milton's Satan is a more interesting character than Milton's God, so a negative campaign inherently has more vividness and fire than a positive...
Trust me; your school doesn't need more money. It can invest in South Africa now. Universities are some of the richest institutions in the world. My school, Stanford, has an endowment larger than Milton Berle's. It has purchased ridiculously expensive pointy metal art installations and put them in the middle of a playing space for faculty children just because it had to use up some art fund. It needs money like I need a call from Milton Berle about that endowment joke...