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...contrast could not be more marked: The British soldiers in creased, clean uniforms, smile at visitors and turn pink in the midday sun; their Sierra Leonean counterparts sport whatever fatigues are available, and they don't smile too much - but neither would you if you'd just returned from years fighting some of the toughest rebels in the world. And here, at the Benguema training center on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, the soldiers' chiseled black faces are working up a serious sweat as they train under Britain's watchful...
...Indeed, some of the sacked pilots had worked for the company for more than two decades. The list of targeted pilots was kept secret. Some of the pink slips were sent by courier, but not all. "One guy reported to work because he had a long-range flight that night," says John Findlay, the union representative, "and his access card to the building didn't work." Another pilot on a layover in Los Angeles got the bad news on a 2 a.m. wake-up call. "They just started picking selected people," Findlay says, "so that when the word goes around...
...region in 1997. Singapore looks to be headed toward full-blown recession, while things in Taiwan haven't been this bad since the early 1970s. Currencies most everywhere are getting clobbered. Stock markets are comatose. And you could just about paper over Bangkok's skyscrapers with all the pink slips Asia's companies are handing out. Yet ask government officials or corporate chieftains if anything can be done to cure their economic ills and it's blank stares all around. It is as if they are powerless victims of some malevolent...
...gold-rimmed glasses - one of the few pairs of glasses I saw on this trip - as he runs through the various sultanates that existed in the 16th and 17th centuries, the various colonial dealings of the 18th and 19th and the upheavals of the 20th. Pulling out a tattered pink folder, leaning forward, he describes his ongoing campaign to regain for local Malays the right to cultivate land held by the government. Back in the sultanate days, it was called tanah ulayat, communal land, and that's what he thinks it should be now. His group is called People...
...warm, hazy day at the Harpeth Hills Memorial Gardens. Nancy, wearing a pink maternity suit, kneels down to wipe dirt from a plaque reading HOPE LAUREN GUTHRIE. A woman whose son lies nearby has hinted repeatedly that Hope's plot is due for a resodding. "I'm gonna have to tell her," says Nancy wearily, "'You know what? We don't need to replant that grass because we're gonna dig it up again soon. We're gonna have this baby,'" she glances at her belly and then at the grave, "'and we already know that's where...