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...goodwill" after it had determined that the captives were not spies. Fiore, who described his treatment by the guerrillas as "lots of food, no violence," says he escaped when his captors fell asleep. The four Americans were looking for the rare Cundinamarca antpitta when kidnapped. And you thought mountain climbing was dangerous...
...rights, even allowed same-gender sexual-harassment cases to proceed. So the attitude seems to be, "You can sue for almost anything; but once in court, the bar will be set very high." Courts have settled on this compromise because they know that sexual-harassment cases involve a mountain of individual context. Cases can evolve remarkably once all the evidence is presented to a judge--which is why some relatively minor cases are allowed to proceed (including one involving a Miller Brewing Co. employee who accused a colleague of sexual harassment after he described a randy Seinfeld episode...
BEST SELLER Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier...
Driving every morning down a canyon road to the mountain I ski at brings me out of Montana and into another world, a world full of people I love to hate. From the arrogant smugness of the man sporting the Vail hat to be the spoiled kids who whine about the bad food, this ski resort, like all ski resorts, is populated by 2 percent locals and 98 percent out-of-town skiers...
...straight line. A search for the word "hockey," will yield "puck.com"; searching for "weather" produces copious charts and myriad maps. Predictable. But throw a loaded word like "noir" into the query box, and suddenly this so-called super-highway has more twists and curves than the line for Space Mountain. "Noir" is certainly one of the most frequently used and misused terms in scholastic, artistic, and intellectual circles, and the Web proves no exception; a search turned up 1,664 sites that use the word in one capacity or another. But the diversity of these sites illustrates how ambiguous...