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...privatization and a merger with another major airline. But Alitalia is in no shape to merge. A Europe-based manager of a U.S. airline scoffs at Italy 's latest plan, which foresees layoffs of 1,100 and fiscal help from fuel tax cuts. "That's just spit in the ocean...
Though I’ve barely dipped my toe in the vast ocean of VES, I’m already finding a strong current of sub-art-house snobbery targeted towards anything with even the faintest odor of mainstream allure. One of the easier marks is the film critics of the four stars variety. I was recently involved in a discussion in a VES class when the name of Roger Ebert was dropped. Like a slab of chum in a pool of makos, the country’s leading film reviewer was quickly disparaged and disposed of. Though I can?...
...book explores the immigrant experience in America by winding its way through the lives of two Russian women separated by an ocean and 60 years of history. Tanya, a recent arrival to New York City in the 1990s, finds herself lost while piecing together the unsolved murder of one Nina B. who was murdered in Paris on the eve of World...
...capture even a negligible portion of the market share for renewables. A large offshore wind farm has been proposed for Cape Cod, for instance. The proposal could generate large amounts of renewable energy at competitive prices, if only local residents could stand the sight of windmills in their ocean views. We strongly support the development of wind power in Cape Cod and sincerely hope that the Gov. Mitt Romney and the state legislature put renewable energy ahead of local residents with not-in-my-backyard agendas. A large wind farm would be a concrete step towards a more sustainable...
...claims to prior discovery of the Americas had no basis in fact, Columbus' biographer set to work. "My profession is history; my avocation is sailing. I combined them." On more than four occasions since 1937, and with kindred spirits of the Harvard Columbus Expedition, Morison went forth upon the ocean in the wake of his hero, the Admiral. He returned with a tale, stranger than any fiction, and as salty...