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...charging for bags carries its own risks, since the the new fee will be painfully apparent to flyers every time they check in. "They've done something that violates what consumers will be expecting," says Derek Rucker, an assistant professor of marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, "The lower price gets the consumer to you, but [the baggage fee] might leave a more bitter taste in their mouth...
...powerless in a hierarchy leads to more mistakes. It's a finding that surprised even the study's authors. "I'll be totally honest. When we started this research," says Adam Galinsky, a co-author and a social psychology professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, "we first had the hypothesis that maybe power might impair [cognitive] functioning...
...This week, in response to the Millan killing, Calderon sent 2,700 federal police and soldiers into Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, for new operations against the cartel there. (Over the weekend, the grown son of the Sinaloa Cartel's chief, Juan "Chapo" Guzman, was gunned down by narco rivals in a Culiacan mall.) Perhaps in response, 40 men dressed in black, riding in 10 pickup trucks and armed with automatic rifles, attacked the state police station in Guamuchil, Sinaloa, reportedly leaving a civilian dead and a police officer seriously wounded. Mexico's violence may defy...
...more than 520 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in 10 major bombings around the country. Yesterday, at least 80 people died when seven or perhaps eight separate bombs exploded within minutes in the crowded central market area of Jaipur, a popular tourist city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. Police say the bombs appear to have been strapped to bicycles and rickshaws. Though no one has yet claimed responsibility - such claims have been extremely rare after previous attacks - government officials and intelligence sources told Indian newspapers and television news stations that Islamic terrorist groups are the likely...
...transcripts. Gaughan's essential goal, according to one of his orders: "To preserve the dignity of the court and the integrity of the proceedings." That's an especially powerful, ironic argument, given widespread concern that Kelly is receiving preferential treatment because of his celebrity status. Ronald Allen, a Northwestern University professor of constitutional and criminal law, says gag orders and closed hearings are used rarely, partly to keep prospective jurors from being influenced by harsh or sympathetic news coverage. Still, Allen says, "The public does have a right to know, in a high-profile case, whether advantages are being given...