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...return flight on American Airlines, I realized I didn't know which of the four terminals or 122 gates at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport I was supposed to use. I listened to the Dallas radio station devoted to American departures, but my flight wasn't mentioned. On a hunch, I picked one terminal and got out of the cab. Bad move. In an airport that covers 20,000 acres and crosses a county line, I wasn't even close to my plane. Later, I approached two unoccupied American ticket agents at what I thought might be my gate, and stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legend in Its Own Time? | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...house the 21-year-old economics student shared with his pregnant wife Valbona. Watching the inferno from a distance, Kadriu was confident Valbona had escaped but was unsure where she had fled. He set off on foot for the village of Zaza, a few miles away, on a hunch she would be there with her two brothers. She wasn't, but a large number of Serb militiamen were. Thugs in balaclavas surrounded the village in three rings, moving inward to trap the inhabitants. Knowing they were targets, Kadriu and a few other men tried to escape. They managed to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Face Of War | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

Daniel Chun '02, a renowned Lampoon cat burglar, said his hunch was Diversity and Distinction...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WWF Wrestler May Be 'Poon Man of the Year | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...confirm his hunch that the University's holdings contained book's from Dario's personal library, Whitesell hunted through Harvard College Library's acquisition records and found correspondence between a book seller in Madrid and the University in 1916, the year of Dario's death...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Librarian Discovers New Work by Nicaraguan Poet in Stacks | 1/21/2000 | See Source »

...Canada last week has fed America's worst fears: On the eve of the millennium, an Algerian man with a trunkload of explosives eludes Canadian authorities, apparently headed for a million-person New Year's party in Seattle, and almost makes it into the U.S. if not for the hunch of a border guard. It makes for one terrifying story to the U.S., which has many terrorist enemies around the world but has stayed generally free of attack on its own soil, and it exposes a disturbing truth - America is only as secure as its borders. One problem from America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heat's on Canada to Crack Terror Cell | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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