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...more complicated--and more interesting. To judge their effectiveness, it helps to look at two airlines that received assistance and whose fortunes have dramatically diverged since those frantic days. America West, which was among the nation's most inept airlines, has used its $380 million in federal loans to transform itself into an innovative industry leader. Another inefficient carrier, US Airways, got nearly $1 billion--the government's largest aid package--and stayed inefficient. US Airways is in such poor shape that some analysts expect another bankruptcy. With the government's big-airlines record at 1-1, the issue...
...crime against the perpetrators themselves [Oct. 27]. Wittingly or unwittingly, the looters have sacrificed their heritage on the altar of greed. Thoughtless European and American dealers and buyers, weary of their own heritage, now prefer Asia's. But no matter how many Asian relics they collect, no alchemy can transform Europe or America into Asia. COSMOS ODOEMENA Sokoto, Nigeria
...chose to lead India after independence from Britain. If Gandhi is India's founding saint, for those of my grandfather's generation, Nehru, their first Prime Minister, was only a shade removed. They called him the "architect of the nation" and believed he would heal India's divisions and transform their impoverished country into a proud and independent world power...
...perpetrators themselves [Oct. 20]. Wittingly or unwittingly, the looters have sacrificed their heritage on the altar of greed. Thoughtless European and American dealers and buyers, obviously weary of their own heritage, now prefer Asia's. But no matter how many Asian relics they collect, no alchemy can transform Europe or America into Asia. Cosmos Odoemena Sokoto, Nigeria...
...could have guessed that precisely three centuries later Alfred de Musset, France’s Shakespeare and George Sand’s hopeless lover, would transform Lorenzo’s story into tragic farce. And even then, no one could have expected that two centuries after that, Lorenzo himself would be transformed—into a skinny, pale, 21st-century girl, with springs in her legs and melancholy eyes...