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...Vegas the first weekend he played with the MIT blackjack team in 1993, and about the luxurious perks of playing big in Nevada. To give a sense of the magnitude of these perks, Irvine told a story about one of his fellow blackjack players receiving a private plane-ride to the Superbowl and watching it from the 50 yard line. Irving emphasized that, despite all the excitement and glamour, blackjack was essentially a means to an end. “We were out there to make money,” Irvine said. “It was definitely a business...
...priest sex abuse scandal, an in-house problem that captured the horrified imagination even of Americans outside the Catholic house. And Benedict's reaction this past week to the abuse issue would have to be scored a public-approval knockout, from his unexpected broaching of the topic on the plane over, to his moving expression of "deep shame" at his Wednesday prayer service with his bishops, to his private meeting with the victims of abuse and his acceptance from Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley of a book containing the names of almost 1,500 victims. O'Malley flipped through...
...matter how innovative Virgin's Airlines are, no matter how loudly Branson trumpets biofuel, every plane in the sky runs on the same stuff. The price of jet fuel has risen 69% in the past year, and Virgin's executives, like their rivals, lie under its sword. "Other than the recession and $110-a-barrel oil, I see nothing but opportunity," CEO Cush deadpans. He can't cost-cut his way out; the limits of that strategy are obvious. The big carriers have taken $15 billion in costs out since 2001 but are paying $17 billion more for fuel...
...roof of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. Reclining like a pasha on an upholstered banquette, he downs champagne and chats up Daryl Hannah and an 18-year-old aspiring actress-environmentalist named Zelda Williams. He seems to enjoy himself but leaves the party early. He's got a plane to catch...
...symbolic value. For practical reasons, the use of Mass. Hall as a freshman dorm was purely positive: It increased the amount of students able to live on Harvard Yard without resorting to crowding or stuffing even more freshmen into Claverly Hall or Apley Court. But on a more emblematic plane, housing freshmen in the same structure that contains the offices of the most powerful figure at the University brings students and administrators into a literal proximity that does much to decrease the symbolic distance between the power poles within the ivy-covered gates of Harvard Yard. The College?...