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...encouraged flyers to cross the Atlantic casually, without even booking a flight. (If a flight was full, passengers simply waited for the next one.) Though his company disbanded in 1982 after bigger airlines slashed their fares, Laker became a hero to entrepreneurs including his fellow Briton Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson...
...admired Skytrain service; in Hollywood, Florida. Launched in 1978, the London-based service encouraged flyers to cross the Atlantic casually, without even booking a flight. Though his company disbanded in 1982 after bigger airlines slashed fares, Laker became a hero to entrepreneurs including his fellow Briton Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson...
...film is a little reminiscent of “Pretty Woman”—only instead of Julia Roberts teaching Richard Gere how to live a little, “Something New” has a gardener teaching a businesswoman how to live a little. The film is a little reminiscent of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” where a white man struggles for acceptance by the ethnic woman’s family. In fact, “Something New” is reminiscent of a lot of other movies...
...remarkably, the Shi'ites compromised. The stakes are higher now, and it will take more than U.N. pressure to win Shi'ite concessions. In the end, it may take a high-profile presidential or Condoleezza Rice-led diplomatic campaign-like Henry Kissinger's in the Middle East or Richard Holbrooke's in Bosnia-to force a deal that could salvage George W. Bush's legacy in the desert...
...number of recent vacancies at the helm of Harvard’s faculties.“The knee-jerk answer is that this adds to [Summers’] power because it gives him a greater hand in the running of Harvard’s schools,” said Richard Bradley, author of the book “Harvard Rules,” a critical assessment of Summers’ tenure. But, according to Bradley, if deans depart or are forced out by Summers, that “makes it harder to attract good people down the line...