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...time Neeleman was assembling JetBlue, he had already launched three airlines, including Morris Air, which he sold to Southwest, and WestJet in Canada. Forced by a non-compete clause with Southwest to stay on the sidelines, he spent years figuring out JetBlue. He raised a ton of capital so he could weather any early storms or cut-throat price wars. He bought brand new Airbus A320s to give customers confidence; he equipped them with satellite TVs and gave you enough seat room so that you could open a newspaper without slapping the passenger next to you. He ran the company...
...have a little bit of pain around the ears, but I'm O.K.' MANJIT SINGH, security-company owner and amateur record breaker, after pulling a 7.4-ton, 30-seat passenger plane 3.4 m with his ears. Singh, 57, who lives in the U.K., hopes the feat will be the latest addition to the 30 world records he already holds, including one for pulling a double-decker bus by his hair...
...It’s like Harvard trying to be a normal college,” said David S. Marshall ’07. “I think it will do a ton to improve social life on campus...
...make sure the strings which control the bells can be arranged so that the bells are easier to ring, said Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck. At the first class on Tuesday, klappermeister-in-training Brian Kennedy ’09 focused on ringing the largest bell, a 13-ton mammoth nicknamed “Mother Earth.” During yesterday’s practice, Ogryzkov noticed that student Molly J. Hester ’08 used earplugs to dampen the bellowing sounds from the 700-pound clapper of “Mother Earth.” Since Ogryzkov...
...There’s the great Saul Bellow quote that “a writer is just a reader moved to emulation.” And so for me, the first step in writing my novel, was [to] read a ton of chick lit to get the voice...