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FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS ARRIVING AT J.F.K. airport in New York City for Virgin Atlantic flights were often surprised when agents met them, apologized for scheduling problems, then steered them to British Airways flights. What they did not know was that the agents were really B.A. employees. Other passengers planning trips on Virgin were taken aback when called at home by British Airways employees offering them incentives to switch to B.A. That was only the half...
...tricks that used code names such as "Mission Atlantic" and "Operation Covent Garden," B.A. (which operates 250 airliners) fought for more than two years to destroy the reputation of its tiny (eight planes) competitor and steal its passengers. But a London court has ordered the giant airline to pay Virgin's flamboyant founder Richard Branson $945,000 in damages and pick up court costs approaching $3 million. Branson is now mulling whether to sue B.A. in U.S. courts...
Promises of a message from the Virgin Mary draw thousands...
...Jesus in a forkful of spaghetti on a billboard in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to the pilgrim who says he was healed during a visit to Medjugorje, built a shrine in his backyard in suburban New Jersey, and now plays host to thousands of visitors hoping to encounter the Virgin on the first Sunday of each month...
...Gonzalez are so convinced of Fowler's powers that five months ago, they sold their heating and air-conditioning business in California and moved with their three children to Conyers, where they now run a religious-memorabilia shop. "She's not here to entertain us," Gabriela says of the Virgin. "She's here to give us a message." That message, offered by Fowler's apparition, is simply -- or divinely -- this: "America, pick up your rosary. Kneel down and pray...