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...Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boonville, Calif. There are occasional drawbacks, of course, even to a job as appetizing as Sheraton's. "You eat a lot of terrible food," she says, "and put up with a lot of miserable service." What makes it worse is that she can't com plain without jeopardizing her anonymity...
...Gohari family reunions take place in the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery at the edge of the dusty Veramin plain on the outskirts of Tehran. Hussein Gohari, 14, squats next to the graves where his father Essa and his brothers Hassan and Ali lie, all killed in the conflict with Iraq. His mother, like many of the other widows at the cemetery, carefully washes her husband's gravestone, then sits with one hand on it in prayer. "We come every Friday," says Hussein. Soon his mother may be left alone to tend the graves. Hussein is ready, eager even, to join...
Despite Coke's conciliatory action, the damage had already been done. Says Lee Wilder, who follows Coke for Robinson Humphrey, the Atlanta-based investment firm: "Coke is an American symbol. The company opened itself to a lot of embarrassment by putting its name on foreign-made clothes. It was plain dumb...
...copyright holders have made it plain this year that they intend to keep the heat on students and others they believe to be infringers, with the number of suits filed now headed into the tens of thousands,” he says. “The copyright holders also made clear that just switching to a new network, like [Internet2], isn’t going to get you off the hook...
...arguably the signature element of the campus—walls tend to crop up around here, not only outside the College but within it as well. If they aren’t made of brick, the walls are more insidious, held up by elitism, prejudice, or just plain reluctance. While most groups are open to anyone on campus, sometimes they can become overly self-selective. The sad result can be a set of firm boundaries with little interaction between people that might have interests in common. Meanwhile, final clubs and art groups tend to restrict their membership along lines that...