By STEPHEN CASTLE
PARIS — François Germain, a BP executive, was one of the first passengers to put Air France’s pilot program allowing cellphone calls in flight to the test. The results last week were not quite as he hoped.
From Seat 14C, Mr. Germain punched in the number on his cellphone to his assistant in Paris […]
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Your Money : By M. P. DUNLEAVEY
The colleges have given their answers. They have sent acceptance letters to high school seniors and their parents along with notifications of how much, if any, financial aid they are offering.
Now, those parents and students have until May 1 to address what may be the toughest questions: Should they […]
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By MATTHEW L. WALD
TULSA, Okla. — When American Airlines grounded 3,000 flights last week and stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers, the company’s chief executive apologized by saying he took “personal responsibility” for the safety-compliance problems.
But now the airline, which faces the prospect of more groundings in coming weeks as the Federal Aviation Administration broadens […]
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By HOWARD BECK : To promote the playoffs, the N.B.A. vertically spliced the faces of eight stars, gave them matching monologues and borrowed the signature line from a 1986 sci-fi film. The ads are compelling, if a little creepy.
LeBron James is fused with Kevin Garnett, Jason Kidd with Steve Nash and — in the ultimate […]
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By BEN SISARIO
In some ways it was like any big night at 315 Bowery, where the grimy “CBGB & OMFUG” awning had hung for three decades.
Loud guitars blared from within. A capacity crowd filled every nook and cranny inside the narrow space, and tattered rock ’n’ roll posters looked down from the dark walls. Bob […]
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Art : By ROBERTA SMITH
Small may be beautiful, but where abstract painting is concerned, it is rarely fashionable. Big has held center stage at least since Jackson Pollock; the small abstractions of painters like Myron Stout, Forrest Bess and Steve Wheeler are mostly relegated to the wings, there to be considered eccentric or overly precious. […]
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