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Fernandes, 40, a fast-talking Malaysian, has become the poster child for the new movement. A 12-year veteran of Warner Music in Asia, Fernandes sold his pricey AOL Time Warner stock options and in 2001 bought into a sleepy two-plane airline in Kuala Lumpur. He now has 22 planes and is seeking to buy 80 more over the next eight years. AirAsia has gone from 12 flights a day to 100, including runs from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, from Bangkok to the gambling mecca of Macau and even flights to Bali. He's also eyeing China and India...
...play for her.”What’s more, Hallion felt little local allegiance to Harvard. Growing up in Westwood, she had followed the success of the team across the river: Boston College. “I went to BC games religiously, had their schedule, had their poster,” Hallion admits. “Kathy’s going to kill me, but I never went to a Harvard game until I was recruited there. So I didn’t have a strong impression of it, but I knew it was a good program...
...Because ‘Hillary Clinton’s cleavage has more Google hits than ‘Harry Potter,’” one poster read...
...this President. George W. Bush has abdicated his control over the military mission and seems boggled by the political side of the Iraqi equation. He has lashed himself to the inept, unrepresentative government of Nouri al-Maliki but seems powerless to influence that government's actions. Bush's Iraq poster boys, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, are doing a wonderful job but lack the rank to make strategic regional policy. The Administration was so inept in dealing with Turkey that its designated mediator, retired General Joseph Ralston, recently quit in frustration. Bush's refusal to engage the Iranians...
Tribal leaders, local officials and a coterie from the Maliki government waved and clapped from the viewing box above the street, under a door-sized poster of Sattar, flanked on one side by an Iraqi flag and on the other by the yellow flag of the "Iraqi Awakening." Before Sattar was killed last month, he broadened his ambitions and his claims of authority to include all of Iraq. Al Rubaie hailed that spirit and pledged the central government would support it locally with funds, security forces and other assistance to develop the region and tie it more firmly with Baghdad...