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Grace Kim refuses to own a car. But at least once a month, the Seattle architect drives 30 miles to the suburbs to visit her mother. If she's in the mood, she'll cruise out to the airport to pick up friends. Occasionally, she wants a car to lug home groceries in bulk or try a new restaurant across town. And when clients need to visit a building site, Kim is at the wheel...
...four key divisions to line executives. Outwardly, her ever-confident manner gave no hint of the humiliating demotion, even after the reorganization leaked to the press. But charisma and confidence can go only so far. On Feb. 6, board members held an emergency meeting at an O'Hare Airport hotel. The next day they asked her to step down. And so the most powerful woman in American business, the poster girl for high-powered celebrity CEOS...
...fuel tanker that was part of a mile-long convoy. Under the protection of part of the 724th, civilian contractors were hauling diesel fuel in 17 tanker trucks across 60 miles from the U.S. military's main logistics base at Camp Anaconda in Balad to Baghdad International Airport. Just west of Baghdad at about 10:30 a.m., the convoy came under sudden attack on the six-lane Abu Ghraib Expressway. "We're taking fire in the rear!" radioed a truck driver. Within seconds, the entire convoy was under a barrage from an estimated 150 insurgents lurking in roadside shacks. Bullets...
When Inge Gabel of North Tonawanda, N.Y., watched her son Matthew disappear through the airport gate for a year abroad before college, she felt desolate. Her daughter was long gone, and now Matthew was also leaving. But her nest wasn't quite empty. Michael, 17, a recently arrived exchange...
Given the weaknesses of the movie’s writing, it’s hard to hold anything against the actors. Hearing Uncle Nino wildly exclaim “you are a beautiful flag” while looking at the stars and stripes in the airport, one is simply left wondering if there are people who actually behave like this...