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I was just notified the reservations to fly from Seattle to Paris with two girlfriends on Air France Premium Voyageur have been changed to a Delta 767. We paid double the Economy fair each way for a more comfortable seat and additional ammenities. Delta, according to Mr. MCCARTNEY, offers much less. Air France told us they would More

Legally, and arguably ethically, much of this is simply beside the point. The SEC quite rightly is charging Goldman with irs withholding calculator information--the quaint term for lying, as in 'but I had my fingers crossed.' Withholding material information is illegal. Goldman--and its critics, for that matter--can howl all More

Why are there fraternities and sororities in universities anyway? Where else in God's green earth do these kinds of institutions exist? I have had my fill of university life years ago. The binge drinking and stupid behaviour of some of the students makes me still shake my head in disgust. How did the halls of learning get inbarriers More

We have Google, Apple, Facebook, Zynga, GroupOn etc. and all those amazing Obama quoted success stories that are changing the world and showing American leadership! Yet, we have 20% of very well qualified and experienced people looking for work. The real reason: obsession with Google, Apple, Facebook, Zynga and GroupOn. Except for More

Apparently I have to spell it out. Murder is a crime because it violates a property right. It is not a crime because it violates someone's morals. The moral repugnancy of murder is not universal in the US or even among people who claim to be morally wrong offended by murder which is why for a large group of people, self defense More

G.J Thomas, Good reliable tenants are important for a successful rental but unless you're absolutely sure about a particular tenant you're better off passing that tenant up. Those tenants willing to pay the highest rents are usually the worst (no job, bad credit, prior evictions, etc.) and most good books on landlording will give More

Europe's crisis may have been triggered the American crisis, but it is truly existential crisis for the euro-zone and based on far worse underlying fundamentals (including but not limited to overly-generous transfers from producers to non-producers, rigid labor markets, and rapidly aging or even decling populations). Trot out all More

That article is a political essay and not a scientific report. What did the journalist know and what kind of political agenda his writing for fun was carrying? Even the content of his writing could very well be fictions like the BBC journalist who finally admitted that his report on the Tiananmen joke was his own making while he More

The best part of the article starts \\ Ronald Reagan was an artist who willed himself into leadership as president of a major American labor union . // and goes on to describe a career full enough for three accomplished lifetimes, \\ went on to popularize modern conservative political philosophy without the help of a conservative More

I don't understand why the author doesn't mention and hasn't contemplated adoption - as someone who had one child naturally at age 39.5 and wanted 2 kids and was told at age 41 that I probably got lucky with the one, having another child naturally was and is a dead issue. Adoption is all that's left and I love the idea. It seems More