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...Sabena's final months were an ugly mess. Up in arms over Müller's proposed cutbacks, unions staged work stoppages and at one point blocked a Swissair plane on the runway in Brussels. Swissair abandoned its hunter strategy and kicked out its CEO in early 2001 after reporting a $1.9 billion annual loss. It reneged on agreements to raise its stake in Sabena to 85% and inject more funds. The Belgians sued, and a compromise was finally agreed. Then came the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Air traffic worldwide nose-dived. Within a month, Swissair grounded its fleet...
...caps for years when in the late '90s aspiring rock musicians in such hip neighborhoods as the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, N.Y., started wearing them as a tribute to Rust and Farm Belt masculinity. Now fashion designers like Heatherette, below, place them on the perfectly coiffed heads of runway models, and Hollywood blades like Benicio Del Toro wear them out on the town. The big ol'brim might even protect their vision from camera flashbulbs. --By Benjamin Nugent
...dubious business in any year, but this year it's tougher than ever. Designers at both cities were buoyantly optimistic, unveiling ambitious new shapes and colors in the face of shrinking sales, a stuttering economy and a looming U.S.-led war against Iraq. The trends on the runways of Milan and Paris - shimmering silver, tiny skirts, Asian influences, a new top-heavy silhouette, to name but a few - were stronger and more varied than they have been in several seasons. Pundits in search of a pat explanation as to why this season was so strong may proclaim: "Afraid to travel...
...time, a Rolls-Royce. Travel is literally a state of mind. When trains got started in the early 19th century, people thought that moving 20 m.p.h. might cause insanity. On the other hand, it is not speed but an enraging motionlessness--the stalled freeway, or the runway where you sit for an hour or two awaiting takeoff--that causes derangement today. We are spoiled. It has been a while since we sat back in a plane or a car and told ourselves, "Life has not many things better than this...
...time, a Rolls-Royce. Travel is literally a state of mind. When trains got started in the early 19th century, people thought that moving 20 m.p.h. might cause insanity. On the other hand, it is not speed but an enraging motionlessness - the stalled freeway, or the runway where you sit for an hour or two awaiting takeoff - that causes derangement today. We are spoiled. It has been a while since we sat back in a plane or a car and told ourselves, "Life has not many things better than this...