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...Once upon a time, when Maurice Flanagan was working at the airport in Nairobi, wet weather meant one thing: it was time to jump into his car and drive quickly up and down the clay runway. If his wheels got stuck, he would wave off any approaching airplane. He has come a long way. Now vice chairman and group president of Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, Flanagan is in charge of the globe's 14th largest and fifth-most-profitable airline. Under his watch, the once tiny, government-owned Emirates Airlines has been transformed, growing more than 20% a year...
...with any Disney movie, an overarching (perhaps overbearing) theme is that of regret at dreams lost: the mothers have much of it and do not wish any upon their daughters so they end up forcing them to follow their own dreams, while inadvertently making their daughters miserable...
...Stay With You” is another of the album’s best numbers, with a lilting melody built upon a warm and soothing melody of voices. Listening to the track suddenly makes the listener see in Technicolor and imagine some particularly sappy European comedy, like the best music of similarly-inclined U.K. band St. Etienne. Voice enters only very late in the mix, and slowly the lines “I wanna stay with you / for the rest of my life” meander in such a manner as to somehow make them not seem trite...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers’ ability to do so. Since then, Faculty predictions about what the vote means for Harvard’s president have focused on everything from the probability of his resignation to the possibility of reconciliation. One thing that everyone seems to agree upon, however, is that it’s going to be a lot harder for Summers to govern if he stays...
Tensions between old-timers and new arrivals -- or "newbies" -- flare up every September as a new crop of college freshmen (armed with their first Internet accounts) are loosed upon the network. But the annual hazing given clueless freshmen pales beside the welcome America Online users received last March, when the Vienna, Virginia-based company opened the doors of the Internet to nearly 1 million customers. It was bad enough that America Online users, clearly identifiable by the aol.com attached to their user IDs, were making all the usual mistakes -- asking dumb questions, posting messages in the wrong place and generally...