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Lodged, presumably, somewhere in the canyons and dugouts of an Afghan mountain range, Osama bin Laden waits for the reckoning. If he has heard by now that U.S. special forces are on the prowl, the news was delivered by a courier; Pentagon officials say they have cut off al-Qaeda's ability to communicate by phone. Last week U.S. pilots hit at least one bin Laden deputy: a bombing raid near Jalalabad killed Abu Baseer al-Masri, an Egyptian Islamic militant said to be close to bin Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri...
...Indeed, some of the sacked pilots had worked for the company for more than two decades. The list of targeted pilots was kept secret. Some of the pink slips were sent by courier, but not all. "One guy reported to work because he had a long-range flight that night," says John Findlay, the union representative, "and his access card to the building didn't work." Another pilot on a layover in Los Angeles got the bad news on a 2 a.m. wake-up call. "They just started picking selected people," Findlay says, "so that when the word goes around...
...atmosphere of hostility, honesty is usually impossible. Ted Ochilo, 35, a gay courier in Nairobi (and who, like all the homosexual Kenyan men and women who spoke to TIME, asked not to be identified by his real name), married because "I am an only son and my parents insisted I produce an heir." But he has been in a gay relationship for the past five years and hides his sexuality from his wife, two children and co-workers for fear of being ostracized. "Being gay is something that people, if they have a choice, should not get involved with...
Just after noon on Wednesday, Oct. 11, HUPD detectives discovered that arrangements had been made for a courier to pick up the computers and transport them to the Marriott Residence Inn in Cambridge Center...
...pondered this experience for the rest of the slow afternoon as I read faxes, kept an eye on the websites and waited (as all newspaper reporters must) for vital phone calls to be returned. The courier had swaggered in here, out of breath--not much older than me, I figured. The look of him wiping sweat from his brow as he left the office stayed with...