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Weinstein's ordeal began Aug. 4, just seconds after he left the Queens diner where he has breakfast every morning at 7. As Weinstein was getting into his 1988 Saab to drive to his nearby office, a man wielding a knife -- a man he had no opportunity to identify -- forced the door open and pushed him into the passenger's seat. A second man jumped into the back and put a noose around his throat. Blindfolded, Weinstein was driven to a secluded slope underneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, one of the city's main thoroughfares, and forced into the muddy...
Nothing in Marianne Gasior's quiet life prepared her for the ordeal she has undergone in the past three years. The petite former attorney for Kennametal Inc., a Pennsylvania machine-tool maker, says she has been harassed, followed and even run off the road since she accused the company of illegally shipping metal-working equipment with military uses to Iraq. But Gasior has persisted in her whistle-blowing ways. She has now amassed evidence that, she says, threatens to expose the misdeeds of American companies as well as a vast Bush Administration cover-up of how scores of firms, some...
...girls have gone back and become nurses. A man came up to me in the Atlanta airport and said, 'I want to tell you that I read your book, and I will never beat my wife again.' " But reliving the Ike years, even from the bright side, was an ordeal to this soul survivor. "And now when the noise from the book calms down," she says ruefully, "here comes the movie...
Nuzum said he ended up making about 20 trips from Thayer to Eliot, transporting the boxes and furniture by hand. He said he received very little help from other students in this ordeal...
Remembering the Holocaust is a painful ordeal. But we choose to remember so that such a thing can never happen again...