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Barton moved to Georgia with his wife and, after starting up a firm he compared with a "paper route," he took a job as a salesman for a chemical company. In his new position, he got to know a young receptionist named Leigh Ann Lang. She was married at the time, but apparently not happily. "She liked older guys," Barton said. "She made that known to everybody." By May 1993, Barton and Lang were having an affair. He bought a new wardrobe and began keeping up a tan. Debra grew suspicious. "The key to the whole thing was I started...
...Gilbo, 21, may have the hottest job on Capitol Hill. Each workday he puts on two suits, one over the other, both made of materials that seal out dust but trap heat. Then he wraps his wrists and ankles, pulls a rubber respirator over his head and climbs more than 200 ft. into the narrow space between the Capitol's inner and outer domes. Gilbo, who lives in Georgetown, Mass., is part of a 10-man crew removing poisonous lead paint from cast-iron walls in temperatures that regularly soar above 100[degrees]F. "It's a pretty hostile environment...
Evangelical leaders find this overdrawn. Says minister Campolo, whose moderate credentials won him a job counseling Bill Clinton, post-Monica: "Their purpose is to propagate the evangelical commitments, and that includes the social values associated with those commitments. But what they are really about is old-time religion, endeavoring to see that every person in the world comes to know Jesus...
...militants (who may in fact be Chechens) crossed into Dagestan and began taking up positions around local villages, is the worst in the region since the Chechen war, which almost got Yeltsin impeached by the Duma last spring. But Stepashin?s main qualification for the Prime Minister?s job was his ability to protect his boss, and of course he was appropriately confident. "Bandits are bandits, and they must be dealt with accordingly," Stepashin said. "We have the strength and the means." He?d better be right, or Russia?s revolving-door government could be spinning again by fall...
...union representatives have argued that Harvard could set minimum wage standards, and that now that Everett is no longer capable of finishing the job, Harvard has a responsibility to see that the firm's workers are employed...