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Solovy and Dunkleberger say that some things in the movie are accurate. While there is no such thing as the graphite card, the Concierge Key card that the film's other veteran flyer, Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga), finds in Ryan Bingham's wallet actually does exist. In the film, Goran is impressed in a way that only aficianados can be: "I wasn't sure these actually existed," she says. American Airlines officials, as secretive as Freemasons in a Dan Brown novel, claim not to know much about it, except that one becomes a member by invitation only - because the airline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in the Air Fantasies: What Does 10 Million Miles Get You? | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...Several veteran House moderates have announced their retirements next year, giving Republicans hopes of picking up a significant number of seats in the November elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officials: House Democrat Will Switch to GOP | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard alums have each been to at least one Games previously, with Ruggiero, a defenseman, a veteran of every American squad since women’s hockey became an Olympic sport...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Three Alums Make US Olympic Team | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...limits, and only 1 million of the city's 2.2 million residents are registered voters. Many are immigrants who cannot vote. The key to winning any Houston mayoral race is coalition-building, and Parker's political career has been deliberate, "low risk" and "canny," according to Richard Murray, a veteran political analyst and political science professor at the University of Houston. Her political journey echoes, to some degree, that of Houston's only other female mayor, Kathy Whitmire. Like Whitmire, Parker used the job of city controller as a jumping-off point, built on her base in the Montrose neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Houston's Gay Mayor Means for Texas | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...Veteran analyst Richard Bove of Rochdale Securities, who had been recommending Citi's shares since the summer, downgraded the stock on news that it was going to repay TARP from a "buy" to a "sell" rating. "What does it do for the company? Management can increase [executive] salaries," says Bove, referring to the fact that Citi will now be free of the government's compensation rules. "What else? Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citi's TARP Repayment: The Downside for a Troubled Bank | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

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