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...year's busiest week of travel. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, a woman clutching a wedding dress in a plastic bag sobbed as she learned her flight to Antigua was disrupted. Elsewhere, many of American's 200,000 daily passengers camped out on concourses, their luggage serving as makeshift pillows. In Dallas one harried American ticket agent was at the end of her rope: "I just called my husband and told him that when I get home tonight, I'm going to need a back rub and a drink. Badly...
Step aside, carpenters. Put away your hammers, all of you makeshift set builders. The Harvard dramatic community has found the answer to its technical nightmares...
Teenage frustrations, out-of-touch ex-hippie parents, suicide, homosexuality, a makeshift radio program and of course, sex--put these together and you have every teenybopper's dream of a cool movie. I mean, it's just so, like, deep, man. These and many other stereotypical or far-fetched sentiments appear in Allan Moyle's film, "Pump Up the Volume...
Abouhalima's social life revolved around the Egyptian immigrant community in Munich, especially the orthodox Muslims he met while praying in makeshift mosques. He invited several Muslim friends who needed housing to live temporarily with him and his wife. Abouhalima conducted many smoky gatherings in their home, where groups of Egyptians would sit and discuss politics in Arabic, which Soika did not understand. Soika says she was left with the impression that Mahmud worked in some kind of "underground," but she couldn't put her finger on it. "He never said anything about it directly," she says. "But I could...
...Louis Agassiz Elementary School, which hired one of the first female African-American principal in the United States, is being reconstructed to remedy problems such as makeshift science laboratories, the absence of a cafeteria and an inadequate number of bathrooms. Agassiz was a 19th century Harvard professor...