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...wife Donna Hanover? Giuliani took McCain's advice to heart--until last Tuesday's primary, when he got 15% of the vote, all from write-in ballots, which are more trouble to fill out than Palm Beach butterflies. On Wednesday, Giuliani summoned the three leading mayoral candidates to his makeshift office at the emergency operations center at Pier 92. There, surrounded by talismans--a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow of the crumbling Twin Towers, and a large Tupperware container of Wheaties--Giuliani shook...
...family was lucky. They made it across the Chaman crossing before the Pakistanis sealed the 995-mile frontier. But millions more have been turned away, and are hemmed in at the border in makeshift, unsanitary camps. Even before Afghanistan became the focus of the U.S. war on terrorism, the country had been in the grip of a crushing famine that had caused hundreds of thousands of Afghans to flee their homes...
...options exchange, safely evacuated all 260 of its employees from 4 World Trade Center. Mark Fichtel, the exchange's CEO, says, "We were incredibly lucky." But it wasn't luck that six days later traders were back at work bidding on coffee, cocoa and orange juice futures at a makeshift facility just across the East River in Queens. That quick relocation was the fruit of a detailed contingency plan put in place nearly seven years ago and constantly refined, at a cost of more than $300,000 a year...
...wife Donna Hanover? Giuliani took McCain's advice to heart - until last Tuesday's primary, when he got 15% of the vote, all from write-in ballots, which are more trouble to fill out than Palm Beach butterflies. On Wednesday, Giuliani summoned the three leading mayoral candidates to his makeshift office at the emergency operations center at Pier 92. There, surrounded by talismans - a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow of the crumbling Twin Towers, and a large Tupperware container of Wheaties - Giuliani shook...
...space are looking elsewhere. American Express, for example, which until Tuesday occupied a building near the Twin Towers that is now inaccessible, is reported to have signed leases in New Jersey. And the Wall Street Journal, forced to evacuate its World Financial Center headquarters on Tuesday, swiftly regrouped in makeshift offices in South Brunswick, N.J., and came out with an issue the next morning...