Word: dhl
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...spent the summer at a publishing house, working as an editorial intern. I mailed and messengered books, learned the ins and outs of UPS and DHL. I answered phones. I photocopied first-pass proofs and book contracts and signing checks. I also wrote rejection letters. I was taught by the very best. Sometimes, I got Thank You notes...
...Just ask DHL. Bosses at the courier company's local depot halted deliveries in the area in 2005, for fear of drivers being set upon by local youths. (The firm has since resumed normal service.) On Stephenson Street, around the corner from the depot, houses thrown up in the time of Dickens have long since made way for barbed wire-laced industrial units, the grinding of saws behind closed doors drowning out the faint crackle of the power lines overhead. Inside a tiny corrugated iron shell, the air thick with the smell of fried eggs and sausage, Ahmet Yucetan...
...Discover I can sign for packages and open the ones from DHL (but not UPS). I can meet with an editor to discuss ideas, using for emphasis Zorba the Greek dance (works well) and Andy Samberg impression (not so much). Interviewing's a bust: subject asks if I'm vacuuming...
...suicide bombing that rocked Kabul on Wednesday was but the latest outrage in a fresh wave of violence that began on October 20 with the shooting death of a British charity worker, followed by the assassination of two western DHL employees less than a week later. The bomb attack on the Ministry of Culture and Information, not far from the presidential palace, appears to have targeted the ministry's foreign advisers, according to the Taliban spokesman who claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of his organization in an interview with the Associated Press. Three attackers rushed the gate...
...month ago, one of the Harvard Shuttle buses collided with a biker at 1 a.m. A few weeks later, another shuttle broke down in the middle of the Quad and had to be towed. And recently, one driver erupted in a public tiff with a DHL delivery man who had parked his van slightly in the shuttle’s way. Something is definitely going on with the shuttle these days. “I’ve seen so many ridiculous things happen on the shuttle,” says Sara M. Flood ’10, a Pforzheimer...