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...there to get away, but they take their problems with them," he says, "and a lot of them don't last terribly long. There's not much to do in places like Cocklebiddy, and a lot of people turn to alcohol." As with the stranded motorists he regularly finds en route, "all we can do is talk to them, and at least give them a bit of comfort." For how much longer he doesn't know. "My days are starting to shrink," he admits. But not his faith. When seconded to the region as a teacher 35 years...
...En route, one of the officers was flagged down by a woman standing in the middle of Garden Street...
...9/11 Commission's suggestion that Iran may have had more to do with al-Qaeda than Iraq ever did has prompted a wave of speculation about the possibility of U.S. action against Tehran. The Commission's report notes that some of the hijackers went through Iran en route to the U.S. from al-Qaeda's Afghan training facilities, and that while no operational relationship existed, an element in Iran's leadership may have created a permissive environment for Osama bin Laden's men on the basis that despite their sharp differences they shared a common enemy in the U.S. President...
Come in here," says my friend Feri as we stop en route from Marseilles to Hungary at a gas station in northern Italy. "There's something you must see." Gazing up at me from dozens of wine bottles on the station's shelves is Adolf Hitler, his right arm outstretched in the familiar Nazi salute. Alongside him is a bottle bearing a portrait of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, organizer of the mass murder of 6 million European Jews. Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini are there as well, staring out from hundreds of bottles of Merlot, Burgundy, Cabernet Sauvignon...
Shoemaker—en route to Palma de Majorca, Spain, for the World Intercollegiate Championships on July 3, at which she finished 21st—missed a connecting flight to the island from the mainland despite arriving at the terminal with time to spare, thanks to her airline’s unfamiliar ticketing and boarding procedure. Waiting at the wrong counter until just after her scheduled flight finished boarding, the Crimson freestyle swimmer was left to jockey for a standby seat, which, after two failed attempts—and seven hours—wasn’t materializing...