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Take the Red-Eye. June C.*, a recently retired flight attendant, has seen her fair share of turned-on travelers. She remembers one couple on an overnight flight to Asia who managed to commandeer three seats for themselves. The man had propped himself up against the window with his partner on his lap and a blanket pulled over them. "At first I thought they were sleeping," June says, "but their bodies were moving very discreetly up and down." Rather than interrupt, June went immediately back to the galley and announced the coach-class quickie to the other flight attendants...
...movie summons the usual suspects to populate the background: an implacable cop (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, also to be seen in RockNRolla); Max's ex-partner (Donal Logue) who suspects that he killed Natasha; and a big thug (the oddly but impressively muscled Amaury Nolasco) who's there to fight our grizzled hero. Beau Bridges offers consolation as an ex-cop (and partner of Max's father), now the head of security at the headquarters of the multinational company where Michelle used to work, and Chris O'Donnell fills in the plot as one of Michelle's old coworkers...
Sirkin is a senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group and a co-author of a new book, Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything...
...Chinese personals, which sometimes read like real estate listings, as in this ad in a magazine for rural women: A 27-YEAR-OLD MAN...DIVORCED WITH AN OPEN NATURE...POSSESSING A FIVE-BEDROOM TILE HOUSE WITH FURNITURE, MODERN APPLIANCES, AND A MOTORCYCLE, SEEKS A WOMAN TO BE A PARTNER FOR LIFE. The preoccupation with property was not as mercenary as it appeared, like height, apartment ownership was a marker, a sign that a man could be depended...
...schools as quickly as possible. “Being from the midwest, I don’t know too much about Ivy League schools,” she said.Now a freshman at Vassar on full scholarship, Ahmed said that Harvard might have been a possibility had it been a partner school.While Harvard’s peer schools, such as Princeton and Yale, use QuestBridge to access more low-income students, Harvard pursues socioeconomic diversity on its own. Because of such independence, Harvard may be missing out on exactly the kinds of students it is looking for.OPTING OUTStudents applying...