For every boss luxuriating in a corporate jet, there are plenty of foot-soldiers, such as Ms Knapp, slumming it in business class.

ECONOMIST: On a wing and a hotel room

He felt cold and liked it, knowing that at home the room would be baking, the two-bar heater running day and night on pilfered electricity, the family luxuriating in excess warmth, even though the spring weather had come.

NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

Luxuriating again in the warmth of his people's support, and in being once more at the centre of affairs, Mr Arafat is said to be confident that Israel will not act on its decision to remove him, so long as America says no.

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