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...airlines, which created the problem in the first place. When is the last time you checked a bag that you weren't forced to? That's because people don't trust that their bag will end up in the same airport on the same day they do. And airline gate agents rarely challenge the size of anyone's carry-on because they want to get paying passengers on the plane with the least amount of friction. Statistically, lost or delayed bags aren't that large an issue, but the mental anguish of being without your toothbrush or even more intimate...
...judicial assistant who was headed for Chicago. "I don't mind at all." Of course most of the people who ended up checking their bags were either women traveling alone or a couple that included a woman: I saw several male road warrior types who strolled right to the gate with their bulky cases squeaking along beside them...
...York bartenders can see the need for contact in their customers' eyes. "We've been so over-the-top busy that it's hard to always know exactly what's going on," says Dawn Darcy, a bartender at the Gate in Brooklyn. "But because of this shared experience, people here are far more apt to talk to strangers. I don't know if it's always sex related...but if it is, that's beautiful." Elliot Bloom went home with a woman he met at 2A, a bar in Greenwich Village; he is not so sure it was beautiful. "People...
This means war, Morrow informed us before the dust had settled on Manhattan Island. But what does it mean to "toughen up" and give the "uncivilized" their due when the barbarians are not waiting at the gate but are already among us? To resort to hatred in this crisis is to pull the pin on a hand grenade without having anywhere to throw it. JONATHAN HARTGROVE St. Davids...
...when action is needed—and action is always needed. In short, I consider it Summers’ duty as president to challenge undergraduates and the rest of the University to use the many opportunities available here to heed, in their own fashion, the words inscribed on Dexter Gate: “Go forth to serve thy country and thy kind...