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...Fischer] was brilliant. He doesn’t have a bachelor’s degree and was a taxi driver. He is the most impressive European politician,” said audience member Kyriakos Piarrakakis, a student at KSG. Following the speech, Fischer left immediately for the airport to fly to what the moderator called “an emergency meeting regarding Afghanistan.” While he did not explicitly say what the meeting convened to address, the Associated Press reported that the German newspaper Bild published photos of German soldiers posing inappropriately with skulls in Afghanistan last week...
...guys and girls finish last. Says Thaler: "We couldn't find one marketing book anywhere--and we combed through all of them--that had one sentence about the fact, 'Oh, and by the way, you should give a client a more comfortable seat, pick up their bags at the airport, compliment them on their ties.'" That's why the authors dismiss old think about office demeanor: "'Mean' to us is so last millennium...
...lugging your bags through the airport to catch a flight on a commercial airline, this should warm your heart. Since 2001, Bush cabinet secretaries and top agency officials have flown on cushier and costlier private aircraft at least 125 times to over 300 locations. And not surprisingly, a political squabble has broken out between Republicans and Democrats over whether the taxpayers' bill for this more convenient form of travel - over $1.5 million - is justified...
Living through a ride on the Highway of Death turned out to be the least of my worries as I arrived in Iraq for the first time last week. I had landed at Baghdad International Airport on Tuesday after an early flight from Amman, Jordan, over Iraq's barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April...
...became an American, I was an Extraordinary Alien (Really, that's what my green card was called.) I could work and live in America and not have to stand for the national anthem. Ah, those were the days. You got to go on the short line at the airport but you didn't have to own up to being the same nationality as Mark Foley. Plus I probably had the same type of green card as Charlize Theron...