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...recent fine August day, I had a little bit of a scare. My Air China flight from Ningbo to Beijing was just rolling down the runway for take-off. I was sitting quietly, unopened book in lap and smug thoughts about a certain half-price plane ticket in mind, when my seat started shaking, harder than before...
...squeeze is on for airlines. Fuel is so expensive, it will cost the airlines $9 billion more this year than in 2003. And although planes are full, there are too many seats on offer, and ticket prices are actually too low for most airlines to make money. Bankruptcy has only delayed the pain. Washington has helped prop up failing airlines with government loans or pension relief for the oldest and least-reformed airlines. Oil, predicts Vaughn Cordle, head of the analytical firm AirlineForecasts, "will do to the industry what bankruptcy hasn't been able to--put some airlines...
...Redford and Meryl Streep. Townsend knows Bobby fully lives where we all live, in dreams of glory, agony, love -- of life's infinite possibilities. In real life, most of those dreams are dashed or deferred. So who wouldn't be pleased enough to pay the price of a movie ticket to see Townsend's come true...
What I say to people who are surprised is that I'm starting to think about deserting. This is not the party I grew up with. I still am a Republican, but I don't vote straight down the ticket...
That idea of a dream ticket could happen only in the movies, of course. But the buzz that greets Clinton and McCain these days tells you something about what's increasingly apparent in real-world politics: the 2008 race is already taking shape, and the shape it is taking looks very much like these two potential rivals. Should McCain and Clinton each decide to make a bid--and most people around them expect it--both would become their party's instant front runner, which is not an entirely good thing. In an open field without an incumbent President or Vice...