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...know better. On a recent United flight I took from Denver to New York City, a veteran cabin crew were turned into seething sky sherpas because United had lopped off one attendant from their complement, and the plane was chock full. Stuff was stuffed everywhere because no one wanted to fork over United's $15 fee for a bag. "See you in about 35 minutes," said one flight attendant as she rolled the beverage cart toward the front. Upon her return, a guy in front of me complained about the slow service, and she snarled right back at him. Like...
...Frontières (MSF) treated 11,800 Ethiopian children for severe acute malnutrition. At a tented hospital in the town of Kuyera, 50 out of 1,000 died, double the rate MSF expects for a full-fledged famine. "It's very bizarre," says Jean de Cambry, a Belgian MSF veteran of crises from Sudan to Afghanistan. "It's so green. But you have all these people dying of hunger." The verdure around Kuyera is misleading. It is the product of rains in June, too late for the first of two annual crops. From January to May, the fields were parched...
...Washington A Political Veteran Indicted A federal grand jury has charged Alaska Senator Ted Stevens with concealing more than $250,000 in gifts from an Alaskan oil-infrastructure company, including major construction work on his home. Stevens, 84, was charged with seven counts of failing to report the gifts on public disclosure forms. The Senate's longest-serving Republican member, he has given up powerful posts on the Commerce and Appropriations committees while maintaining that the charges are false...
...Atlantic Monthly that the spot would make McCain look "childish" and "diminish the brand." On the other side of the argument, Republican strategists worry that the new approach may not be enough to take down Obama, especially in the absence of a third-party group, like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004. "They have managed to scare off outside groups," said one veteran party strategist of McCain's, who, as a longtime supporter of campaign finance reform, is opposed to such third-party spending. "The outside groups have always been able to say what the candidate cannot...
...Party insiders also tip Jack Straw, now Justice Minister, a Labour veteran who has served as Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary, to play a key role. Labour rules make it tough to oust a Prime Minister. That's why some Labour MPs hope that Straw will persuade Brown to stand down voluntarily...