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...addition of a new, competing park alongside Disneyland represents a major gamble with its original 45-year-old property. Yet such parks generate cash far more reliably than, say, the movie business. Which is why Disney is also expanding at Tokyo's DisneySea this year, adding a second gate in Paris next year and drawing up plans for a new Hong Kong Disneyland...
Standing in a line of grumpy fellow travelers and arguing with the gate agent might be the worst thing you can do. "Gate agents," says a former airline executive, "are processors, not problem solvers." Instead head back to the ticket counter, where the personnel tend to be less harassed and more knowledgeable, and have access to better information. Try to be cordial; if the airline reps get snippy, ask to see the airline's on-site customer-service manager. That's the top of the complaint food chain, the person who can make your life pleasant or merely bearable...
Demonstrators outside the room who were not affiliated with the University were asked to leave the premises and escorted to Johnston Gate by police. At one point, six police officers stood outside the classroom...
Harvard seemed to have the momentum out of the gate as Prasse-Freeman and Gellert combined for the Crimson's first seven points. After that, though, it was the Dan Clemente show...
...police officers attempted to attack the Srinagar airport that day. But Indian army guards turned them away, and the operation was aborted. Two weeks ago, however, a second attempt succeeded. Six would-be martyrs, dressed in police uniforms and driving a stolen government jeep, reached the outer defense gate of the airport and indiscriminately tossed grenades and opened fire with rifles. Back in the Islamabad safe house, a coded message came through at 2:15 p.m. saying the men had reached their target. Abu Ammar, a 30-year-old Pakistani veteran of the Afghan war?his face is scarred from...