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...testimony in Shoah (a Hebrew word for cataclysm) does not justify either the film's extraordinary length or French Director Claude Lanzmann's relentless badgering of some of the victims. Still and all, it is salutary to be confronted, hour after hour after hour, with memories horrifying enough to fill a dozen movies. Subjecting oneself to Shoah is like being strapped down for an extended session with the exorcist...
Elsewhere, the rewards can involve intricate calculations. The Colorado-based Adolph Coors Co. will pay 90% rather than 85% of the medical bills of employees who fill out a 105-item questionnaire. Along with the standard medical inquiries, the form asks about such stressful experiences as divorce and job changes, even whether the employee carries a gun. Based on the responses, workers are assigned a "health age." If it is more than two years above their actual age, they have three years to shape up or lose the extra 5% reimbursement. In Bellevue, Wash., city workers gain "points" according...
...perennial problem, though, is that almost everyone schedules flights on just two days, the Wednesday before the holiday and the Sunday after. During the time in between, jets crisscross the country at only about 30% of capacity. Last week American Airlines launched a drastic fare-cutting plan to fill some 220,000 empty seats with travelers who ordinarily would stay home. The carrier offered a $29 one-way fare for any trip up to 500 miles, $49 for voyages between 501 and 1,500 miles and $79 for those over 1,500. Such fares, which give travelers a coast...
...customers paying regular or supersaver fares. Griped a ticket agent who works in Detroit for one of American's rivals: "Seats to all the really good places are sold out anyway. American may have five or six routes where tickets hadn't been selling, and they wanted to fill those planes." One airline that has abstained so far from the Thanksgiving bargains is People Express. The discount carrier said it was busy enough and had already lowered some prices to Western destinations served by Frontier, the airline that People acquired in October...
...fact, second base remained untouched by Yale cleats until the final inning, when a leadoff double threatened Herrmann’s shutout. The Bulldog runner would later reach third—and a teammate first—on an error, and Herrmann would hit the next batter to fill the bases...