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Bobb knows from experience that he is fighting an unconventional war. Born in New Orleans, he grew up mainly on a southwest Louisiana sugarcane plantation, where his grandmother worked as a maid. During summers, he worked in sulfur pits; to cover tuition at Grambling State University, he buffed floors. He moved quickly through a series of city-management jobs in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Oakland, Calif. In 2003, Washington's then mayor, Anthony A. Williams, hired Bobb as city manager and deputy mayor; he managed an $8 billion annual budget and some 20,000 employees. Three years later, he was elected...
Terwindt's study was based on phone interviews with 977 men and women from an extended family in the southwest of the Netherlands, and the researchers were smart to focus on just that family and not the wider population. Rooting out genetic links to disease is notoriously difficult and often leads to premature conclusions that later wind up being debunked. One problem is that complex disorders like migraines can be caused by multiple genes as well as by other biochemical and environmental factors...
...civil partnership with his partner of 13 years and has two children). "Gays are no longer just seen as partiers, but also as parents," he says. Paris, of course, is not rural France. But even in Barsac, a village of 2,200 people in the country's southwest, gay leaders have seen progress. Philippe Meynard, the mayor for five years, says his own visibility has influenced local attitudes. "People have become aware that a gay person isn't a caricature," he says. People now judge him primarily by his work building parking lots and beautifying the village. (See a timeline...
Clearly, some rivals don't. Southwest Airlines has mocked the majors in a series of advertisements that point out its own free checked-baggage service. JetBlue did likewise in a recent ad, offering a faux travel product to non-JetBlue flyers, the Extrago Sherpa Shirt, which "can hold an entire trip's worth of necessities, including the $20 bill you'll save by not checking...
Funny, aren't Southwest and JetBlue among the better performers? They are not always the cheapest, mile for mile, but customers of these carriers find value in the whole travel experience, not just the price. People will pay money for performance. It's a lesson the legacy guys never seem...