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RESIGNED. DONALD CARTY, 58, as chairman and CEO of American Airlines; after unions were outraged to learn that he had awarded large bonuses to himself and other top executives last March while workers were being urged to accept wage concessions; in Fort Worth, Texas. To help the airline stave off bankruptcy, the unions nevertheless agreed to $1.6 billion in wage cuts...
...only set aside enough money for a week or two. Some were going hungry when they were finally picked up. The alleged assassin, Zvezdan Jovanovic, a deputy commander of the Red Berets whose fingerprints were found in the room from which the shots were fired, felt confident enough to accept an invitation to the Interior Ministry. Checking his weapons at the door, he and four other commanders failed to notice antiterror police ringing the building. When he arrived on the second floor, he recognized his captors and gave up without a fight. According to investigators, battle-hardened paramilitaries and criminals...
...that he'll accept the top job in a new government in the (rather unlikely) event its offered to him by the Americans: "The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires," Muqtada told a press conference this week. For that reason, he says, he will decline any offer to rule the new Iraq. "I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S." When asked if that meant...
Weston Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie A. Buckler was extended an offer of tenure yesterday. Though she has yet to officially accept, Buckler says she plans...
Membership in such a club changes you. How can it not? You’ve been selected out of the Harvard mob to join with a group of boys who self-segregate, preferring each other to the company of women and the non-elite—and you accept. You join their ranks, and share their club-house; you turn a blind eye to the fundamental absurdity—let alone the offensiveness—of it all. This explains the enormous size of the chips on their shoulders...