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...carrier to report a return to pretax profit. Alas, the bottom line turned red again in April, and Bethune predicts more rough weather ahead if the majors don't "wise up"--that is, stop adding seats and start raising fares. "It's a challenging business, which some of us thrive on," says Bethune. "I mean it's crazy as s___. I like it because it's never, never, never static...
...Yields from kids at this school [to Harvard] are unusually high,” Singer says. “The biggest reason I think is that it is urban and these kids thrive in that and it affords the students a degree of independence that they like. The kids are self-starters—the idea of a close-knit campus that doesn’t have many outside opportunities is not very appealing to them...
...Lamb's confidence and warmth, however, their government--by some accounts the most corrupt in Asia--seems to provoke nothing but frustration. After the war, it pursued petty vendettas against its neighbors in the south, and to this day it remains fearful of allowing its subjects the freedom they thrive on. At a time when 60% of the people in Vietnam were born after the American troops left, most of Vietnam's leaders are senior citizens. It's hardly shocking, then, that when a Vietnamese magazine whose name means "youth" held a poll among its readers two years ago, Bill...
...this true-to-life Asian woman found the characters speaking not in realistic dialogue but in political diatribe. Take Wild Ginger's argument with her mother, in which she lambastes her father: "He was a spy. Spying was his job. He was sent by the Western imperialists. Helping China thrive was his disguise. It was false. Helping the Western imperialists to exploit China was the truth...
Procreation implies optimism. Mothers and fathers must believe that society will provide a haven, an environment in which their children will thrive. What does it say, then, if parents no longer have that faith? If rather than raise their children themselves, parents would send their beloved to far-flung corners of the world, anywhere, really, to escape the carnage of Kashmir...