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Southwest Airlines announced last June that it would enforce a long-standing policy of requiring the obese to buy an extra seat based solely on the judgment of staff at the check-in counter that a particular passenger wouldn't fit in a single seat. Southwest says most people who have contacted the airline have supported the policy. And it doesn't seem to have hurt business. Southwest is the only one of the top five airlines that is in the black. But advocates for the obese are livid over the policy. "It infuriates both men and women," says Allen...
...assure adroit handling of burgeoning intelligence reports, FBI officials have set up a new "counter-terror watch" desk, staffed around the clock, to assess and disseminate leads and threats faster and more adroitly to field agents and state and local authorities. Until now, few of these threats have been linked with Saddam Hussein. And since he is a secularist, some feel he may have less support among potential terrorists in the radical Muslim community. "But on the other side of the equation," says a senior counter-terror agent, "you will get a number of people who see the war against...
...What you will hear will be the words of wisdom from the father of social justice...a message to rededicate ourselves to his principles and to the alleviation of human suffering,” Counter said...
University President Lawrence H. Summers did not attend Monday’s service, but Counter read a statement he wrote for the occasion...
...Counter credited the service’s execution to the “dedication” of the 13 student planners, and the efforts of the United Ministry, Memorial Church, the Harvard Foundation...