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...jobs," says Breit. "You ask them why, and they say, 'He told me to sweep the floor, and I didn't think it was my job.'" And then there's resolving disputes. "Sometimes that's an interesting class because they'll say, 'I'd just flatten them,'" says Breit. "Some of their lives have been so mired in conflict." As telephone operators, the students themselves will be easy punching bags. They are drilled on how to diffuse angry callers without losing their own cool. "How would I handle a customer who starts off angry?" asks a student. "I'd HEAR...
...that isn't a dress shoe and isn't an athletic shoe. Says Geoff Hollister, who heads Nike's grass-roots running program: "We were just filling the pipeline. You've got to come up with great stuff all the time. You miss just one season, and you can flatten out just that quickly." Nike has conceded that it is likely to lose market share to surging Adidas and niche brands like Asics this year...
...magazine and forged one out of scrap metal. Down in the artisans' suq in Asmara, men in blue overalls don masks cut from cardboard to weld new pots from old oil tins and cooking braziers from rusted rods. The clang, hammer, sizzle of makeshift industry are everywhere as boys flatten old iron bars for their brothers to beat into new shovels...
...weeks ago, The Crimson broke news of an alcohol-related "catasrophe" (News, Sep. 15): due to changes in Harvard ID cards. "underage ragers" might henceforth have trouble purchasing alcohol illegally. The article lamented that this cruel move to "flatten the little c that remains in Harvard's night life," caused "grief to "sweep across the Yard...
...friend, the thicket of rage surrounding him and his own confused thoughts on race. "My cousins and uncles wanted to go there and kill them all," he says. One relative phoned to say he had 2,000 rounds left over from the military. His mom said she wanted to "flatten Flint." Kaiser himself tries to express yet contain his anger, using the only words he has at his reach. "Not all black people are niggers. And there are some white people who are niggers. Those black people who messed with us are niggers...