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That doesn't mean the inspectors can let down their guard. Though they still work 12-to-16-hour shifts in relentless heat and bitter cold, they have logged fewer sick days than before the national crisis. "They're tired and they've made a lot of personal sacrifices, but they continue to demonstrate the same dedication today as they did on the 11th of September," says Anderson. Anderson's own closet-size cubicle inside the small brick customs office is a spartan place purged of distractions except for photos of Linda and their daughter, 23, and son, 19. Taped...
...recalled to Bern when a Swiss paper published details of an alleged affair with a topless model. Though he denied the story from the beginning and has since received a sizable out-of-court settlement from the tabloid, which admitted fabricating the story, he quit government and remains bitter over his treatment. "I will never go back under this minister," he says when asked if he would ever return to the diplomatic corps. "But fortunately ministers change...
Anthony S.A. Freinberg ’04, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Lowell House. He is bitter after yet again wasting two weeks of his summer fervently rooting for his countryman Tim Henman...
...Danan's story had a happy ending?almost. She escaped from her mama-san a year and a half ago with the help of a Filipino priest. Last June, she returned to Korea hoping to marry her G.I. boyfriend, only to face another bitter disappointment. He beat her, she says, and almost smothered her with a pillow. So she went back to the shelter run by the Filipino priest. Downrange, some of the soldiers say they have heard stories like that. But a lot of guys are just young and lonely and looking for a woman to drink a beer...
...million this year since it is filling only 60% of its seats. Yet some industry experts say the results are not bad for a start-up, and the airline is expecting to turn a profit in 2004. But there are other storms as well. One is an increasingly bitter dispute with former Crossair pilots. Their union has rejected a proposed 16% salary increase on top of last year's 28% raise, saying that former Swissair pilots were offered a better deal. Industry insiders say long-standing animosity between Swissair and Crossair pilots is at the root of the bickering. Different...