Archive for January 21st, 2004
American 2, 2, 2 for one
You have to be a lawyer to figure out how to actually cash in on American Airlines’ buy 2 get 1 free offer. The deal is: fly twice to California or Florida from New York or Boston before April 15, and get one ticket anywhere AA flies. There are plenty of catches, though: you have [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Whose New Year Is It?
The Lunar New Year begins very early this year — January 22. Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans celebrate with even more gusto than in Times Square; definately with more food. There is a certain arbitrary way in which the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one is celebrated: the date of [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Quit complaining…
The other day, the NY Post had this letter to the editor from a NY upstater resident; she apparently resented the downstaters’ whining about the cold. See, upstate, the cold is normal and the downstaters ought to quit complaining and deal with it. Now, I’d be the first to admit that one should [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2004 under Brooklyn.
Comments: 2