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Passengers Stage Sit-In After Plane Is Diverted
By Hugh Collins - AOL News
(Nov. 17) -- Passengers staged a four-hour sit-in on a Ryanair plane after their flight to France was diverted to Belgium. More than 100 passengers were on board the plane, which was supposed to land in Beauvais, near Paris, Tuesday after taking off from Fez, Morocco, The Daily Mail reported. The flight, which departed three hours late, was diverted to Liege, Belgium, more than 200 miles from Beauvais, because of bad weather. The passengers, most of whom were French, refused to leave the plane and insisted that they be flown back to France. Ryanair was offering a bus from Liege to Paris. ...
To California Student Protesters: Why Target the Regents?
By Andrew Clark - Politics DailyI have to ask: what, exactly, is the goal of the various University of California student protest movements and their vocal campaigns criticizing the regents' decision to hike tuition? It's true the UC system has been one of the biggest victims in California's budget nightmare. As a result of a $26-billion budget shortfall, the Democrats in the state legislature and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger enacted what the University of California has called "unprecedented state budget cuts of $814 million in 2008-09 and $637 million in 2009-10." It's also true that students have been ...
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