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Michael O'Leary, Ryanair's rambunctious CEO, claimed last week that the Commission, after a yearlong investigation, has already decided that the company's 15-year deal with Charleroi is illegal. He vowed that, pending an appeal, Ryanair would quit Charleroi, saying the decision "will benefit only one group: high-cost airlines and airports," and that the ruling was a "death sentence" for the low-cost model in Europe. But even in an industry where hot air is used to keep business aloft, O'Leary's words seem mostly designed to put last-minute pressure on the Commission. European Union...
...what he signed up to do. "Someone has to do the job, and we did it," he says. "The price was my leg." He plans to return to college--his four-year hitch was up a week after he lost his leg--and marry his fiance Elizabeth Gonzalez, who quit her California job and moved to Washington to help him recover. Later this month, if all the paperwork comes through, Castro should reach another milestone: becoming a U.S. citizen...
...Basra, Bassem Saghair deftly works the controls of a crane as he unloads air-conditioning units from the hold of the Hussaini. The ship is one of a dozen crowding the waterfront that have sailed from Dubai up the Shatt al-Arab River laden with consumer goods. Saghair, 15, quit school for this job, which pays $360 a month, double the highest salary any Iraqi official earns from U.S.-occupation authorities. "Life is not bad," says Saghair, with a shy smile spreading under the beginnings of a mustache...
...like him only "makes me stronger." But he's not sure his salary of about $100 a month--three times his former pay--is enough to justify putting his life on the line. "If I find a new job that pays better," says Aziz, "I'm going to quit...
BEST PUNCH: Calling O'Neal "fat" on ESPN, Bryant said he may quit the team at season's end largely because of Shaq's "childlike selfishness and jealousy...