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Getting on the A-List. Bump up to a better airline lifestyle on Southwest: the airline's Rapid Rewards frequent flyer program will grant you "A-List" status if you fly five round-trips before June 15. A-Listers get the coveted "A" boarding pass, which allows you to board early and claim your preferred seat, plus access to priority Fly By airport security lanes. A-List status is valid through December...
When THE_REAL_SHAQ wrote that he was eating at 5 & Diner - a chain of 1950s-themed restaurants throughout the Southwest - Bearden and Neden drove over to the downtown Phoenix location to see if it was really him. They found the 7 ft. 1 in., 320-lb. Phoenix Suns center seated alone in a corner booth, futzing with his cell phone. "He looked just like a random guy at a diner," says Neden. "Except, you know, he was Shaq." (Read 10 Questions with O'Neal...
...biggest issue is the fight for the oil beneath Kirkuk, to the southwest, but even in Mosul, a Kurdish Commander in the Iraqi army expressed deep concerns. "Tomorrow," Col. Hazar, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi Army 5th Battalion told me, "if [Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki transferred an Arab battalion up here, then we could not trust these people because they would use violence against us." (See a video on Iraq, six years after the U.S. invasion...
...West by Southwest. Southwest Airlines is having a sale on tickets for travel any day of week except Friday and Sunday. Fly for $49 one-way between Burbank and Sacramento; $69 one-way between Denver and Oakland; or $99 one-way between Houston Hobby and Los Angeles. Flights must be booked online by April 6, for travel April 2 to August 14, with a 14-day advance purchase. Some blackout dates apply...
Last week a joint U.S. and Iraqi military operation was launched in southwest Mosul as part of the province-wide Operation Nineveh Resolve, aimed at rooting out insurgents and finding weapons caches. Platoons fanned out along rubbish-strewn streets as Blackhawk helicopters circled overhead to provide support. But the residents of Mosul have experienced this type of neighborhood "clearing" operation many times before. "We've never been able to really hold the gains, and so these people have seen clearance after clearance, after clearance," says Colonel Volesky. And so Mosul will see such operations again and again, hoping that something...