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...ladder companies, three engine companies and one rescue division reported to the scene and 13 firefighters entered the dormitory...
Stanisic, 46, spent the first 14 years of his career working his way up the ladder of the Yugoslav secret police. In 1988 he was promoted to chief of Belgrade's security operations. It was in this position that he first caught the attention of Milosevic, who had been elected President of Serbia the year before. In March 1991, three months before the Balkan wars began, the President placed Stanisic in charge of Serbia's entire security service...
...folks like Kevin Fitzpatrick, the fuck-it-all complexion of a contemplative existence? Why does the mundane existence lure the soul? Is it fear of failure or a desire for stability in the lack of motion? Can we ask for anything other than insecurity from a life-time of ladder-climbing? Is such future uncertainty, such unease of stomach and bother of mind, such agitated fuel for the self inherently bad? Or is the fact that it propels us to greater heights sufficient reasoning for the bother...
...Reich, who would become Labor Secretary, and then enunciated in Clinton's book Putting People First. There the candidate declared, "While our global competitors invest in their working people, seven of every 10 dollars American companies spend on employee training goes to those at the top of the corporate ladder. High-level executives float on golden parachutes to a cushy life while hardworking Americans are grounded without the skills they need." After that, Clinton promised an "urgent" and "simple" solution: "We will require every employer to spend 1.5% of payroll for continuing education and training to all workers, not just...
...Jackie on killer stilts, Jackie jumping from a high ledge, Jackie battling in an aquarium stocked with great white (rubber) sharks. See, and marvel, as he fights off a dozen or so angry Chinese men; his only weapons are a card table, some folding chairs and a metal ladder that becomes his own personal jungle gym. "Director Stanley Tong doesn't have quite the camera savvy of an ace Hollywood action auteur," notes Corliss, "but when the star is in motion, defying gravity, physics and common sense, all reservations dissolve into awe at one man's grace and comic charm...