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That record is due in large part to an employee culture that Barrett, 57, is credited with nurturing. The divorced grandmother and Willie Nelson fan has devoted her life to Southwest and still tries to read every customer letter the airline receives. As the self-described "mother hen" of the carrier's 35,000 workers, she encouraged a family atmosphere long before it became fashionable. Birthdays, anniversaries and other significant events in an employee's life are noted with a card from Barrett's office. The airline has endured only one strike in three decades. Employee morale is boosted...
...with the plan was an Anglican priest turned traveling evangelical preacher named John Nelson Darby, who arrived in the U.S. in 1862 for the first of seven visits, bearing a radical new eschatology. Darby and minister Cyrus Scofield, who would expand the evangelist's ideas in the vastly influential Scofield Reference Bible, divided God's relationship with man into seven ages (the current sixth began with the death of Christ). Their vision grimly upended the previous wisdom. Far from getting ever better, things on earth would progressively worsen, until the Antichrist, also known as the Beast, arose. A seven-year...
Like Blanket Bay and Huka, this lodge, located near Nelson on the north end of the South Island, offers superb accommodations. Each of the six private suites is outfitted with computerized mood lighting and a wet bar. The main lodge features a day spa and a collection of modern sculpture and paintings by New Zealand and American artists. Be sure to visit the neighboring Nelson and Marlborough wine regions, including Neudorf and Cloudy Bay wineries, both of which welcome visitors. Hiking enthusiasts rave about the 30-mile coastal track at nearby Abel Tasman park. Learn more at paratiho.co.nz...
...sexual inquiries, such as what to do about cross-dressing husbands. It reached an estimated 90 million people daily through 1,200 publications. DIED. LIONEL BERNSTEIN, 82, a white antiapartheid activist; in Oxford, England. Bernstein stood trial for sabotage and attempted overthrow of the South African government alongside Nelson Mandela in 1963. Following his acquittal, Bernstein moved to England where he practiced as an architect. DIED. PEDRO ALCAZAR, 26, a Panamanian boxer, of a brain injury 36 hours after he lost his World Boxing Organization junior bantamweight title fight; in Las Vegas. Alcazar showed no signs of injury immediately after...
...Palestinian militants, Rubeinstein says, and that will likely make his endorsement necessary for the success of any long-term peace agreement - once the 73-year-old Arafat has passed from the scene, the imprisoned Barghouti's importance in Palestinian politics could become the equivalent of that of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela in South Africa...