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...girl; she married into Lauder. But she struggled mightily to travel from her parents' apartment above the family hardware store in Queens to presiding over a global cosmetics company. The daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, she was enthralled by beauty and glamour, and her talent lay in convincing other women she could help them attain it. In the 1930s, with a face cream her uncle, a chemist, brewed up in his kitchen, ESTEE LAUDER traveled tirelessly to local beauty salons, demonstrating the product on women marooned under hair dryers. In 1948, after dogging the store's president...
...police checkpoint, killed two officers, then retreated inside the crumbling, red brick Krue Se mosque to launch a defiant stand against the might of the Thai military. When the automatic-weapon fire had ceased and the tear gas had cleared nine hours after the siege began, all 32 lay dead, their bodies lying in bloodied heaps on the stone floor of the mosque. It was not the only blood spilled that day. In an unprecedented outbreak of carnage that has stunned this predominantly Buddhist nation, 108 Muslims were killed after a series of apparently coordinated attacks on police posts...
...likes to work the knees a little bit,” he said. “We were able to lay off those balls and get a lot of 2-0, 3-1 healthy cuts...
...student-heavy crowd, which also included members of five different campus unions, responded with applause and shouts of “Lay off Larry!” before joining hands and surrounding Mass. Hall in a human chain...
...Harvard’s Office of Human Resources forgot to bubble in these sections of the Working Mother questionnaire. Indeed, they must have skipped the whole page about employment security. For even as HUCTW negotiates a new contract with Harvard, the University has announced that by June it will lay off at least 213 clerical and technical workers, including 89 card-carrying members of HUCTW. Most of these layoffs will affect women...