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...partner had gone to the back to take on the attackers, and I had drawn my gun, rushing to the front of the first-class cabin and shouting "Police! Police! Police!" I whirled and faced the passengers, with my back to the cockpit door that I am to protect with my life. In these close quarters, I feel confident about only one thing: my Sig Sauer 229 handgun and its hollow-point bullets designed to mushroom inside the human body...
...their children. It was the first of the four cases to be heard that would be combined in the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing school segregation. The white community's response was hostile. Harry and Eliza Briggs, who lived in a cabin on the Elliott estate, were fired from their jobs and had to move to Florida to find new work. Other black families who signed the Briggs' petitions were also fired from jobs. A black church was burned down and its pastor run out of town. In the '60s, white families, determined...
...near Manila's waterfront, where they oversee nearly every aspect of the business. On Saturdays family members fan out to conduct firsthand inspections of their SM malls, department stores and supermarkets. On Sundays Sy, 80, insists that the family meet yet again, either at his $2 million luxury log cabin in the lush hills outside Manila or at the family home in the swish Forbes Park district of the capital. He cooks lunch...
...Mountains, has long been celebrated for its superb needlework. Since the 16th century Jagiellon dynasty, the women of this tiny village have been making exquisitely crocheted household linens, shawls and wall hangings. An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the cobweb-like design (no one else had the skills to finish it). The advent of machine-made lace almost ended the tradition, but then the women of Koniaków had a brain wave: Why not use their...
...that changed about an hour into his flight from St. Louis, when the captain came over the loudspeaker to announce to the cabin that a certain celebrity—the inconspicuous Jantzen, sporting street clothes and two black eyes—was sitting amongst them...