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Reared in Arlington, Va., Govan taught drawing in high school, hoped to be an artist and double-majored in studio art and art history at Massachusetts' Williams College. There he met Williams College Museum of Art then director Thomas Krens who, spotting talent, soon had him designing brochures and posters. "He was fast, quick, bright and mature beyond his years," recalls Krens, today director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. "Michael seemed preternaturally sophisticated about...
Alexandria, Va. Behind an Old Town fish-and-chips restaurant displaying a pirate flag is an unmarked door with a blue light denoting the entrance to PX. After you ring the bell, a host's eyes appear in a peephole, and a voice beckons you upstairs?or denies your entry because the place holds only 30 people. Inside, the bar is decked out with mirrored walls and glass chandeliers. Just like in the 1920s (the bar's era of inspiration), bartenders hand-make cocktail mixers, including the tonic water, bitters and fresh-squeezed juice. eamonnsdublinchipper.com...
Even as overall premium-fare business travel has withered over the past year, superior service remains in strong demand on marathon flights from the U.S. and Europe to Asia. And long-haul routes are far cheaper to operate per passenger mile than, say, the Richmond, Va., to Memphis, Tenn., flight that domestic airlines provide. While profit margins for all Asian carriers are relatively high, SIA's has been 50% higher, according to an industry analyst, than Qantas' and double that of Japan Airlines...
...lack of openness raises questions about how real SIA's profits are and how fairly it plays. "The government's share is as big as a 747," says Richard Aboulafia, an industry analyst at the Teal Group, an aviation-consulting firm based in Fairfax, Va. "And it's not transparent. Maybe they're not as efficient as they claim. There is a certain science-fiction quality to their numbers." Geoff Dixon, CEO of Australia's Qantas, says, "Singapore Airlines is a government-owned and -backed carrier that does not have to play by the same rules as other airlines." Cheong...
...folks who freed Huffman from his old dial-up connection--the one that hogged his phone line while he was online to check sports scores or read the news--work for the publicly owned utility of the city of Manassas, Va. They are the people who make sure that the 15,000 homes and businesses in this quiet suburb 30 miles southwest of Washington have electricity, water and sewer service. They were never interested in getting into the broadband business--in fact, officials are keen to franchise the operation to an outside investor--but that's exactly what they...