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...fully expect that our well-financed adversaries, will take whatever steps they feel they need to take that they think might defeat our mechanisms?both above and below the ground," says Mark Borkowski, a retired Air Force colonel who is now executive director of the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Border Initiative, which oversees the physical and virtual fences on the Mexico border. "We are seeing all kinds of technologies that these people are using to get around some of the fences we are putting in place...
Leading by example can be a tall order for the older sibling, who is often just steps ahead of the younger ones. At 19, with both parents deceased, Kathy Borkowski, now living in Madison, Wis., took charge of her three younger siblings, ages 9 to 14. John, the youngest, was on dinner duty one night, when there was no milk for the mashed potatoes. He quickly solved the problem by melting a cup of vanilla ice cream. "I figured they were both dairy and the right color!" he explains...
...Riverdance producers are not the only people with whom Flatley has had tumultuous business relationships. Since his rise to stardom with the company, he has gone through a long list of lawyers and handlers. Former Lord of the Dance publicist Mark Borkowski left Flatley this year. "He's focused on one thing, and that's himself," says Borkowski of his former client. "I can't be at his beck and call every moment of the day. He wanted me to stay, but I have a business to run." In January Flatley fired his manager John Reid for not being sufficiently...
...that the crew rebelled. They wanted Captain Borkowski or nobody. They did not want to go to Canada and carry munitions to Britain. Moreover, there was some back pay due them. They would not sail. Police were summoned...
...Captain Borkowski, who had wept with his officers as they embraced him and said goodby, collected his 25 pieces of luggage, including a mattress and a mariner's clock, hung his marine glasses over one shoulder, hitched a leather brief case up under an arm, and with a raincoat rustling around his sea legs, entrained for Halifax...